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[Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released |
Date: |
Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:10:34 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) |
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'.
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/04/08
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Reuben Thomas, 2009/04/08
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released,
Ludovic Courtès <=
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Reuben Thomas, 2009/04/08
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/04/09
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Reuben Thomas, 2009/04/09
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Ludovic Courtès, 2009/04/09
- [Bug-zile] Re: Zile 2.3.5 released, Reuben Thomas, 2009/04/09