lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Mon Aug 28 01:52:36 UTC 2006
On Saturday 26 August 2006 7:50 pm, Natanael Copa wrote:
> Now if lua will make it to mainstream busybox, then lua sounds very much
> more interesting.
>
> Is it realistic to expect it to go into busybox 1.3?
I make no promises. I haven't seen the patch yet (you mentioned it could
possibly be trimmed down below 50k, that would improve its acceptability to
me), I haven't learned the language yet, and I haven't heard much feedback
from anybody else yet.
However, of all the various scripting langauges I've seen, lua is the only one
I can't immediately rule _out_ as going into BusyBox. Even Python (my
scripting language of choice) is just too darn big. The idea of adding perl
is laughable. PHP is, as you point out, 3 megabytes.
I believe Manuel Nova was thinking about writing a new scripting language for
BusyBox, back when he had more time. I believe I pointed him at Lua.
Rob
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