Re: CVS commit: src/sys/modules/lua

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

apb@ wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2013, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >> Did you get core approval for this?  The public discussion is 
> >> still ongoing, and still lacking in evidence, and there has 
> >> been no public statement by core as far as I am aware, nor did 
> >> any members of core I asked have any recollection of approving 
> >> this.  Please don't steamroll over public discussions like 
> >> this.
> > Just for the record, yes, I got core's approval.
> 
> Could you tell us approximately when you got that approval?  It 
> wasn't in the past two years while I have been a member of core.

Lua was initially imported ~three years ago
http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-6.0.html#lua%281%29
as a result of GSoC 2010:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-kern/2010/10/05/msg008900.html
http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern/

IMO, importing lua is a good material for advocacy
(there are so many mentions about it on Twitter/Facebook etc.)
while it took too long..
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Izumi Tsutsui