Re[2]: requiring modules with a C and Lua part

[Alen Ladavac <alenl-ml@...>]

> I've had some thoughts of my own on this... the embedding of lua
> code within the binary file; but I don't want to lose the advantage
> of being able to modify LUA code "on the fly".  To that end I have toyed with the idea of:

> 1.  Creating a "bundled" executable, that contains embedded LUA code.
> 2.  Add options to the executable to "extract" the code to real files.
> 3.  Add option to the executable to "re-embed" the lua code if changes are made.

Perhaps look into something like the self-extract zip format. Just
append a zip archive to the end of the executable, and have the
executable look at its end to check for the zip footer. Then people
can zip/rezip such things using normal zip tools.

JM2C,
Alen