Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
> I still haven't looked at lua, so I don't know how it would work for
> /linuxrc. I've been figuring on working to build a busybox sh based
> /linuxrc, possibly statically linked against a stripped ulibc, and see how
> small a "boot-strap" lrp could be made. Root.lrp (and all other packages)
> would be loaded by the /linuxrc script.
You might be interested in a few things:
1. busybox now has the options of using ash, lash, msh, and hush (all
integrated in busybox - choose one!)
2. I just broke the 900k barrier on my root.lrp: it's down to 880k or
something like that.
> If you dive into lua, let us all know what it's like.
A good quote from a DDJ article on it (from Dec. 1996 (!)) - "A few
metamechanisms replace a host of features" ...very nice.
Brings up a question - like busybox, lua (the interpreter) is extensible
- I mean, via libraries and code and such. So now, on my system or
around here I have:
1. Lua
2. Lua + POSIXLibrary (poslib)
3. Lua + POSIX Library + Lua sockets (network programming)
4. Lua + POSIX Lib + LuaSocket + regex (Standard Regular Expressions)
All of these are Lua; all are Lua 4.0. What's a packager to do? I
wouldn't even know what to do with an RPM.... but more than 8 chars
would be nice... (sigh).
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