[issue730] Latest DEVEL still reflects old pkg_* paths

[Gergo Szakal]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:43:44 -0700 (PDT)
Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:

> I definitely don't want to get bogged down in having to
> have a dozen packages installed on the CD just to support the
> installer (not having tried the patch yet I don't know what the
> requirements are, if any).

It really has about 10 packages. The installer itself calls the Lua
executable which communicates with the installer via the dfui protocol,
for which the support is added to Lua by a C module. There are many
other Lua modules used. All are for Lua 5.0, which is deprecated
upstream. In theory, corecode has upgraded the whole thing to Lua 5.1,
which is basically getting the latest versions of 3rdparty lua modules,
upgrading dfuibe_lua to 5.1 and upgrading the scripts, since 5.0 and
5.1 have different syntax. I have not looked at his results yet (is it
already public?)

It however would not be a problem to distribute Lua & friends, since
they are usually MIT-licensed which is even less restrictive than BSD.

-- 
Gergo Szakal MD <bastyaelvtars at gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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