On 8/23/07, Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know enough about LUA to say for sure. Having taken a quick > look at lua.org, the implementation looks pleasantly small, and LUA > scripts look more comprehensible than say Tcl (which is not saying > much, I know). But part of "show me the code" is people demonstrating > that no really, LUA is an appropriate tool for simple scripts that is > portable enough that we don't need to have external dependencies on > bash and perl, and that it is easier than rewriting all of our shell > scripts in C. Maybe that is a true statement. I don't know. My > suggestion to "Show us the code" was a way of hoping someone who cared > enough about this issue could show us. I just threw LUA out as an example of a tiny language in the hope of avoiding something giant like mono. LUA is already installed on most Linux distributions, liblua50.so on mine. It is 100KB. LUA is used as a scripting language in some popular games. Because of that it has good ports to Mac/Windows. There are over a dozen books on Amazon about using LUA. I only care about the scripting issue in that I don't want git to get tied to a giant scripting system. LUA is small enough to package with git. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@xxxxxxxxx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
