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On Feb 27, 2016 15:59, "steve donovan" <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Enrico Colombini <erix@erix.it> wrote:
> > I be would very glad for a solution to the problem "to run this Lua script,
> > you just have to...".
>
> One solution is a fat Lua binary - modern users don't particularly
> care that the interpreter is now 10megs, but they hate dealing with
> "lots of little files". (That was the motivation behind luabuild) I
> had a very satisfactory experience with such a fat all-batteries
> included binary download (pgweb, written in Go) recently.

Related to this discussion, I just noticed this on Reddit: http://appimage.org - single file executable, running on any Linux distro, with no external dependencies, no installation. Note that I have not used it nor read the documentation yet.