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- Subject: Re: [ANN] hererocks 0.10.0 - Lua/LuaRocks installation script
- From: Coda Highland <chighland@...>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:39:39 -0700
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2016-07-14 20:55 GMT+02:00 Peter Melnichenko <mpeterval@gmail.com>:
>
>> I released version 0.10.0 of hererocks, a Python script for
>> fetching and installing Lua, LuaJIT and LuaRocks:
>>
>> https://github.com/mpeterv/hererocks
>
> Apart from the chicken-and-egg issue, why is the script not in Lua?
>
> This is not an aggressive question. The answer will, I hope,
> pinpoint some areas in which Lua and its ecosystem is not yet
> ideal for system maintenance scripts.
>
The chicken-and-egg issue was my guess on the matter. Python is
preinstalled in the base system on most (all major?) Linux
distributions, but Lua doesn't have that kind of penetration at the
moment.
/s/ Adam
