Nick Kew wrote: > > On 2 Jun 2009, at 12:52, Amanda Waite wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm planning to update Lighttpd in OpenSolaris to use the recently >> integrated Lua library. This will finally allow us to support >> mod_magnet which is a key differentiator for Lighttpd. Would we >> consider adding lua to the WebStack core libraries so that we can >> then add mod_magnet support in a future version of WebStack? >> >> BTW: I'll also update Lighttpd in OpenSolaris to 1.4.22 and plan on >> adding it to WebStack release after 1.5. > > FWIW, Apache has a number of third-party Lua modules, and more > recently has > integrated (optional) Lua support in the core distribution. So we'll > be wanting > Lua libraries too.
Good, we have plenty of justification for proposing this then. > > But ... are you saying we can't just use a host system's Lua package > to base it on? > Solaris doesn't have a Lua package so 'the host system's Lua package' isn't an option there (just as with all of the other wslibs we provide). Red Hat probably has it, OpenSolaris has it, Solaris doesn't. Amanda
