Re: Lua's opportunity

[Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@...>]

Thomas Hafner wrote:
> Jimmie Houchin <jhouchin@cableone.net> wrote/schrieb <45921043.3020307@cableone.net>:
>
> > But it is quite a challenge to search and find the community
> > contributed libraries. I think it would be wonderful if the
> > community would select and bless certain libraries as standard. Make
> > them available for the various platforms compiled and ready to use.
>
> The libraries do neither have to be standard nor do they have to be
> already compiled: look at Perl's CPAN. In the CPAN shell you can
> search for a package, fetch/install/build/test it, and all
> dependencies will be resolved automatically (i.e.: if you install a
> package A version V which depends on another package B version W, the
> latter will also be fetched/installed/built/tested automatically -
> just having requested A is enough).

Standard or blessed is not required but can be beneficial. But as far as 
compiled I disagree. I cannot use Luiz's libraries on my Windows machine 
at work. But I can use them at home. Why? Because at work I have no C 
compiler and at home I do. Compiling for the OSes that binaries are a 
common prerequisite should have compiled binaries available. It should 
not be expected that a person who seeks to use an interpreted language 
have a C compiler. If there are not you automatically excluding certain 
users. Just my opinion.

I know nothing about CPAN, but I do know what prevents me from using 
something.

Jimmie