Re: Lua as a scripting language in NetBSD

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Oct 17, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:

> For scripts a good candidate for use is pkg_install. The current use  
> of
> sh/awk/sed both requires larger bootstrap kits on !NetBSD and makes it
> difficult to correctly handle e.g. configuration files with spaces  
> (XXX
> add PR reference here). This is not strictly a reason to move it to
> base, but might provide an idea for what it is useful.
This is the only example presented thus far that makes me think it  
should be in the base system, at least until we really have syspkgs.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb