.First off, this monsieurouxx's effort (resp. that of the team he is speaking for). If he wants to not use SVN or another VCS, or only wants to use one at a latter date, that is of course completely his/their choice! At most, we can give advice -- e.g. I think that even at this early stage, a VCS can be helpful, (at least a distributed one like git or mercurial). But maybe for them this doesn't work so well (e.g. if there are many newbies involved who don't know VCS' at all).
Next, I also find it a bit strange to implement all the logic in Lua, but it certainly is possible to implement a 99% accurate Dune reimplementation using Lua (as Lua is Turing complete, this isn't a big surprise
, and not completely unreasonable. It simply comes with a string of advantages of disadvantages attached: If the goal is to eventually turn this project into an official ScummVM engine, then using a Lua based approach IMHO sounds like a potential hindrance. However, if the goal is to implement an *external* Dune engine, using ScummVM technology, which is extensible using mods, then using Lua certainly sounds like the right things. It's a matter of priorities and weighing pros and cons, really.md5, you seem to implicitly assume that monsieurouxx's goal is to write an engine that is eventually meant to be included within ScummVM itself; he never said so.
