Re: getlua.sh - the fastest way to get a Lua interpreter on any Linux server

[Stefan Reich <info@...>]

On 2013-03-04 02:51, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > wget
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/safelua/files/lua-base/lua-5.2.1.tar.gz/download
>
> You should get the source from lua.org.

You mean the Brazilians' server? Why would I do that? I trust my own 
server. It has the file I want.

I don't trust the Brazilians; they tried to hurt me before.

It's a Free Internet. I can choose my servers. Right?

> However, a script would be better written with some variables. Here
> is what I use.
> It lets you download any version of Lua, but defaults to the current 
> one.

Why wouuld you do that? They make new versions (e.g. 5.2) incompatible 
with older ones (e.g. 5.1).

> #!/bin/sh
>
> V=5.2.1
> L=lua-${1:-$V}
> W=http://www.lua.org/ftp
> T=$L.tar.gz
>
> wget -N $W/$T
> tar zxf $T
> cd $L ; make linux test


Well OK that's just about the same as mine... just not as friendly with 
the user in terms of helpful output :)

Let's really work together to make a smart Lua installer / program 
runner. It's doable, not that much work and will be a very useful thing 
to have. As a name, I propose "smartlua". Any objections? :)

Cheers,
Stefan