Re: Lua as replacement for Bash scripting

[HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 08:52, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Moritz Moeller <realritz@virtualritz.com> wrote:
>> On 07/05/2010 03:36 PM, Alex Queiroz wrote:
>>>> Lua is available, out of the box, on /some/ Linux distros we target, but
>>>> definitely not on OSX. :|
>>>>
>>>      But it is inexpensive to ship.
>>
>> We have a chicken-egg problem though.
>> The software to run the installer needs the installer to run before, to
>> actually run it.
>
> can't you just ship a fat binary of Lua then? Or choose one based on
> machine arch?
>

Or statically link a (maybe stripped-down) Lua interpreter into the installer.

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