Re: Lua library bank? (Was: Ruby philosophy vs Lua philosophy

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2013/3/9 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> Perhaps the addition of a package searcher and an aping of
> TeX/Context/LaTeX TEXMF trees?

Why another package searcher? Can't we simply use kpse? Remember, Lua
is part of TeX now. There are over 600 Lua source files in texlive2012.

I've made a little experiment: created a "lua" subdirectory in
my $HOME/texmf/tex, put some modules in there, ran texhash.
`kpsewhich` finds the .lua files but not the .so files. So there is
clearly already something special about the .lua extension, even
though there is no specialized file type 'lua'.