RE: Lua libraries

[Nick Trout <Nick.Trout@...>]

> Don't some platforms require the executable to know the 
> absolute path to 
> the shared lib while not providing the app with info about 
> the path the 
> executable?(Linux?) So the shared libs are essentially 
> required to be in 
> system folders and therefore seriously complicate user-level 
> applications - admin access is required to install the libs & whose 
> shared lib gets installed if two apps have a shared lib with the same 
> name? It's dangerous to make the assumption that everyone 
> that will want 
> to be able to run a lua app is also a sysadmin.
> 
> Making shared libs the standard for lua-addons would make lua both 
> platform dependent and sysadmin dependent.


How do Lua and Python cope with this? I dont think you need admin privileges
to install new modules on Python on any platform? (could someone please
inform me otherwise?)

So far as I know this would be very simple cross platform, you could just
have a directory/s which you dump your libs into, make sure its in LUA_PATH
and require the module.

Just because a standardised framework exists to do this doesnt mean that you
cant do it the current way. You should still be able to combine any
libraries with your app and build a single executable if you so require as
Lua may be embedded too. The flexibility of use of Lua still needs to be
there.

Nick