Re: [ANN] Lua For Windows v5.1.3.3 Public Alpha2 released

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

--- Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@gmail.com> wrote:
> People experienced enough to have multiple installs
> of lua, can setup
> lua without the need of this type of installer. File
> associations make
> for high accessibility from explorer. This installer
> isn't targeted at
> experienced Lua users but people who might want to
> try Lua or those of
> us too lazy to setup Lua on multiple machines
> without an automatic
> install.
Unless most of the scripts are self-contained
application with GUI(i.e. windows) usage in-mind, what
good would it be to double click on say
socket\http.lua ? A command window quickly pop and go
and an inexperienced user still don't know what is
going on.

How many lua scripts out on the net belongs to this
category ?

Even if there is such thing it still would come back
to my scenario of multiple installation, later, like
the following(assuming inexperienced typical windows
user):

1. grab the nice installer(say 5.1)
2. install with association
3. found a nicely written Windows based app that use
the association
4. three months later, lua 5.2 comes out that breaks
5.1 s scripts
5. being taught by Microsoft to do frequent update
install this nicely new package(thinking newer is
always better)
6. bang! the app in (3) no longer run