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On Jan 30, 2002 at 12:43 -0800, Steve Dekorte wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 02:59  AM, Nick Trout wrote:
> > 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?)
> 
> (I'm guessing you meant Perl and Python) - They don't cope with it. They 
> require the user to set an environment to a fixed path where all the 
> shared libs are. Those languages weren't designed for embedding in 
> consumer apps. They assume the user is a developer or sysadmin.

No -- Perl has a "use lib 'path/to/libs'" facility, and you can access
the @INC list as well.

-- 
Thatcher Ulrich <tu@tulrich.com>
http://tulrich.com