Why bundling lua?

[Dag Wieers]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 01:47 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> Oh but the thing is that Lua cannot be dynamically linked,
> > Why?
> 
> Hmm.. looks like I was wrong, Lua as of at least 5.0.2 can be built as a 
> shared library afterall. Maybe it's a recent feature or something. Now, 
> since that IS possible I wouldn't be that opposed to a build option to use 
> system lua, with default to using internal Lua. *Assuming* it can be made 
> to fully and sanely work that way.

configure could be checking for all the required extensions, give a big 
warning that these are missing and switch to the internal one, unless 
forced to use the external one.

Is it somehow possible to check a script to see what functionality is 
required on runtime ? So apt could simply say that a script won't work 
because a Lua extension is missing ?

Kind regards,
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