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> I was saying that if the proposal to move Lua to a kernel-like design were
> taking serious, it'd be good to orient the default makefile toward building
> out these 3 functionalities -- and then including the standard libs like
> 'string' in corelibs/ dir or something to be installed and loaded as
> needed.

Until Lua 5.0 we did that: the Makefile generated liblua.a containing
the core and liblualib.a containing the libs. But this separation gave
no edge, it only complicated matters.