Re: Unique directions for Lua?

["J. Perkins" <jason@...>]

jim@mathies.com wrote:
> Lua should remain a versatile embedded language / vm and not be converted 
> into a bloated "we decide how you do everything" scripting environment. 
>
> Loadlib, the aux libs, iolib, 3rd party libraries in general.. all of these should be 
> placed outside the standard Lua distribution and supplied as separate downloads.

I sort of agree with what you're saying, sort of. The standard 
libraries you refer to are placed in a separate directory and can be 
removed from lua.c easily enough. Should lua.c be removed from the 
"standard" distro as well?

You can make a case either way. I think it's awfully easy to remove 
the stuff you don't want, though non-ANSI C stuff like the loadlib 
extension should probably be kept separate.

Jason