Re: How to detect a MSWindows console in pure Lua

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

Enrico Colombini wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 10.15, Lorenzo Donati wrote:
> > Ah! By the way, I had problem with Alien since it requires luarocks for
> > installation and I have a fairly complicated custom layout for programs
> > on my PC and I hate 'installers' - I definitely prefer software that can
> > be "unzipped and run" ("portable" software - the other meaning ;)).
>
> You are not alone. For example, when I have to manage Lua tools for 
> multiple projects that require different versions, and make them 
> available to other people (not necessarily programmers) via SVN, things 
> can get pretty hairy when installers are involved, so I try to avoid them.
"Mal comune, mezzo gaudio!" we say in Italy :-)
("Common evil, half joy!" - approximate translation for the list :-)
-- Lor