[Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> 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?

At the moment, Lua is only a maintainence dependency. Eventually it will 
become a run-time dependency. This fits with the goal of having a very small 
footprint because Lua is very small:

$ ls -l /usr/bin/lua5.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 142K 2009-03-30 11:21 /usr/bin/lua5.1*
mord 21:12:34 download$ ls -l src/zile
-rwxr-x--- 1 rrt rrt 142K 2009-04-08 21:17 zile*

Of course, there will be Lua bytecode too, and the overall memory 
consumption will probably be a lot bigger, but the "small footprint" is 
mostly important in small installations, i.e. the disk space; and I expect 
Zile will still run comfortably in a few Mb; Lua applications can certainly 
be made to.

There will be a huge advantage in terms of maintainability, which is more 
important.

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