lua [ was: Bash shell support? ]

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 11:28:01PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 09:52:36PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:

>A new scripting language or something based on Lua might be desirable.
>While Lua is very small to implement I suspect the memory usage is
>larger than it should be and I know the performance will be bad on
>many embedded systems since all arithmetic is floating point. Still, I
>like Lua.. :)

Chiming in a bit late, it seems..

Why on earth do we want any scripting _in_ busybox?

AFAIR, we don't want (resp. didn't want until recently) these in busybox
-) filesystem utilities (bad example as there currently is a big bloated
   batch in there -- e2fsprogs -- that noone cares to shrink nor really
   maintain)
-) compilers (i'd immediately put in tcc, because it is relatively small
   -- <100k -- and relatively useful, as in somewhat useable C89 support)

One project that may be of real use is to export a zlib compatible
interface, as mentioned before, but i didn't yet see any proposal for
this one.

cheers,
Bernhard