[Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Reuben Thomas <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks. This is a packaging bug, as tbl_vars.h should be shipped, but
> isn't. I'll fix this with a new release.

Thanks!

> GNU Zile is intended to be extremely portable. I expect one day to
> require a scripting language for building and running Zile; I chose
> Lua because it's extremely portable (requires ANSI C89 only) and
> because it's small enough to include in the package when that becomes
> the case, because Zile is used on old systems that don't necessarily
> have either Lua, Guile, or a suitably modern version of something
> else, like Python or Perl, already installed.

Guile is very portable as well, but it's surely much larger than
Lua---you would not want to ship it with Zile.

Is Lua a run-time dependency or just a compile-time dependency?  If the
former, how does that fit with the goal of having a very small
footprint?

Thanks,
Ludo'.