Re: Installing Lua on macOS in order to update Lua.

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

2018-02-23 20:31 GMT+02:00 Francisco Olarte <folarte@peoplecall.com>:
> On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 7:07 PM, Glenn Travis <travplays@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I see what you are saying, however, please note that on that page it reads
>>
>> Once you have built Lua, you may want to install it in an official place in
>> your system.
>>
>> Now that is  passive voice (may) and folks might skip or ignore that
>> portion.
>
> Is "passive voice" the correct term for these? English is not my
> native language, but I  think I was taught "User installs lua", active
> voice, "Lua is installed by the user", passive voice ( similar to how
> it is in spanish, just asking, I really do not know ).

It's the subjunctive mode. Perfectly correct in this situation.

>> Given that, I may I suggest that it be rewritten in active voice ; you will
>> need to install….  You must install . . . Etc.
>
> I STRONGLY disagree with that. Many users DO NOT install lua from
> sources in an "official" place, and in fact I've NEVER done it (
> always installed it locally from sources, for "official" installs i go
> the easy way and use package managers, I do not consider myself smart
> enough to install global packages from sources ).

And anyway, nothing in Lua is ever "must". Lua supplies tols, not policies.