[Gmsh] Lua and gmsh

[Perrin Meyer]

Bummer, I like lua a lot.  But I understand the move to python, since  
it has a least two orders of magnitude more developers and users.   
I'm disappointed that python still does not have integrated NumPy  
support "out of the box".   The progress on NumPY has been painfully  
slow (first Numarray, then Numeric, then Numpy).  I wish they would  
just get it solid and get a PEP going and include it already.  This  
is one of the reasons I got interested in lua - small, fast, easy to  
interface with C, no dependencies....

Thanks for letting me know, so I didn't spend weeks on lua code +  
gmsh...

Perrin


On Mar 16, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Christophe Geuzaine wrote:

> On 16/03/11 19:44, Perrin Meyer wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I would like to use Lua to create gmsh meshes. So far I have two  
>> issues.
>>
>> (1) - I can't seem to find any documentation?
>>
>> (2) when I start gmsh -lua and get a prompt >, after every syntax  
>> error
>> I make, lua exits. Is this a bug with my lua installation? I'm  
>> running
>> gmsh 2.5.0
>>
>
> Hello Perrin,
>
> After a long internal debate we are actually transitioning from the  
> integrated lua bindings to more traditional (swig-generated) python  
> bindings.
>
> We are actively working on this; the latest SVN contains fairly  
> functional python binding generation. Lots of new things are in the  
> pipeline in this regards, e.g. python-binded gui-driven data  
> generation.
>
> Christophe
>
>> Thank you for your help, and also a great open source tool.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Perrin Meyer
>>
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> Prof. Christophe Geuzaine
> University of Liege, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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