Re: ANN: pcp-machine - a Lua query engine for PCP

[Ryan Doyle <ryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 11:17:09 -0500, fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler) 
wrote:
> Hi, Ryan -
>
> Would it be fair to say that the core portion is more like a lua
> binding to the PMAPI, and the pmie portion is the hard-coded lua
> conditionals in the samples/*.lua files?
Yep it's a very small Lua binding. I avoided making it a more generic, 
reusable library at the moment as I think of Lua to be used within a 
specific domain.
> As of 3.11, the former portion can be expressed as pretty compact
> python code now.  So for example, the samples/nprocs.lua could
> look thusly in pcp 3.11 python:
Ah, that's pretty neat. The fetch group API is quite new to me but 
looks a lot easier to use.
Cheers,
Ryan