RE: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of steve donovan
> Sent: dinsdag 20 mei 2014 12:05
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: Makefile vs LUA_PATH inconsistency
> 
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Thijs Schreijer
> <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> > I agree, but it also doesn't hurt to adopt those, does it? And adopting
> them would resolve a number of minor newbie issues, like default
> installations not working.
> 
> Well, newbies will download a distribution, like the LuaDist
> batteries, or use some other prepackaged install.  Separate Lua
> versions have their own names and locations, so they have their local
> trees.
> 
> I must say I don't see the problem;  I've never thought that the
> default makefile should have Windows install targets, since (a) a
> newcomer won't go that route and (b) it's meant for POSIX systems.

Well, I for one went that route...