Re: unix(3lua)

[Marc Balmer <mhbalmer%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Am 18.05.2018 um 07:41 schrieb maya%netbsd.org@localhost:
> 
>> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:20:20AM +0100, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
>> David Holland wrote:
>>>> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 03:41:26PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote:
>>>> One more thing: When we imported Lua into base, we very clearly
>>>> decided that pkgsrc Lua and base Lua should be two separate things.
>>>> Base Lua can not use pkgsrc Lua modules by default (and most
>>>> probably vice versa).
>>> 
>>> ...you very clearly decided; some of the rest of us consider that a
>>> bug.
>> 
>> Bug??? I thought a clear separation between the base and packages
>> was a selling point of all BSDs.
> 
> pkgsrc uses builtin things all the time, even when they're objectively
> worse and pkgsrc has an alternative, like not shipping its own compiler
> for older releases, base tar which dumps garbage PosixHeaders.1234 crap
> and breaks random programs like octave-forge, base openssl past EOL,
> etc.

Lua on the other hand is very well maintained in base and kept up to date.  Not so surprisingly it has been the topic of several research projects.  Having Lua in base, and Lua enabled binaries, is a big asset and plus of NetBSD.