On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > I like lua and am currently learning it. It has advantages that it is a
> > clean syntax, good for configuration files and configuration processing,
> > it is smaller than Perl/Python, but offers more features than 'sh', it is
> > very portable and ve
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> 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 (net
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.lr
> All of this is part of an effort to shrink root.lrp; I've already
> removed /var/spool/cron (to a new cron.lrp) and much of /sbin to
> init.lrp
>
> What do you think of using lua for writing /linuxrc? Anyone here have
> experience in lua?
>
> I'm about to dive in headlong :-)
I still
Dale Long wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > What do you think of using lua for writing /linuxrc? Anyone here have
> > experience in lua?
>
> I like lua and am currently learning it. It has advantages that it is a
> clean syntax, good for configuration files and configur
David Douthitt wrote:
>
> I was pondering this, wondering if there was another language other than
> /bin/ash which had more power in less space. This is what I've found:
>
> ash 100k
> lua 79k
> What do you think of using lua for writing /linuxrc? Anyone here have
> experience in l
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> I was pondering this, wondering if there was another language other than
> /bin/ash which had more power in less space. This is what I've found:
>
> ash 100k
> rc -- requires libncurses, libreadline
> esh -- requires libreadline, libtermc
I was pondering this, wondering if there was another language other than
/bin/ash which had more power in less space. This is what I've found:
ash 100k
rc -- requires libncurses, libreadline
esh -- requires libreadline, libtermcap
eforth 12k (static)
lua 79k
es -- won't
