Re: [ANNOUNCE] Lua 4.1 (work4)

[ramsdell@... (John D. Ramsdell)]

Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@digital-scurf.org> writes:

> Lua /is/ easy to install, perhaps not for people who don't know what they're
> doing when they install software which isn't pre-packaged, but then again,
> is that such a bad thing?

This is false.  Lua is not easy to install.  For autoconfig'ed
systems, one simply types:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

There are no instructions to read, and the process can be automated.
This is what it means for software to be easily installed.

The current Lua install method requires that one edit it's makefile.
The makefile has it's own conventions that are different from every
other package.  It's a waste of time to ask programmers to go through
this process.

Autoconf solved this problem a long time ago.  It's well tested
software that is accepted by the community.  There is a reason so many
people use it.

John