Re: Lua as a scripting language in NetBSD

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 05:41:51PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 
> I am neither for nor against the idea of adding a new small language
> to base, but a few good examples would move me to the "for" side.
> Lua looks like a reasonable choice, but then so does tcl.

Ow.  Ow, ow, ow.  Have you ever tried to cross-build Tcl?

The Tcl runtime is not exactly svelte, either.  And, of course, the
"Tcl way" is to install a *complete copy of Tcl* for every application
which "embeds" it.  When you try to undo that, you end up with something
like ActiveTcl, which is considerably larger than NetBSD 'base' all by
itself.

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