Re: [Celestia-developers] Lua in 1.3.1?

[Fridger S. <t0...@ma...>]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> 
> Fridger Schrempp wrote:
> > well, I am not sure about Lua lib. Chris has also included the zlib etc into
> > the Windows distro. If we let people go out and seek for the Lua lib this will
> > end in NOWHERE! The Lua lib is contained in NO major distribution as standard
> > (I think?). So it is only fair to provide it with Celestia.
> 
> Linux packages should never, ever contain multiple packages. You install
> Celestia, and then you can't install the lua package, because the files
> are already owned by the Celestia package.
> 
> --Pat
> 

Of course, I was thinking of linking it in statically, as Chris also suggested! 

In general I tend to agree with your 'iron' rule. Yet, it only applies to more
recent habits of binary package installs that work like 'pushing a button'
(rpm's for example). When people where still /thinking/ before installing
something this was not a problem whatsoever;-)

 
Incidentally, I know of many well-known tarballs and also binary packages that
furnish more exotic libs, just in case...(think of the xmms player for example,
many commercial packages (!), e.g. Maple for Linux has the opengl lib, pstoedit
(has cmslib and others ), Mozilla/Netscape, Imagemagick,  and so on...the list
is almost endless). 

For tarballs, you can easily deactivate the lib-install via configure, for
example, if your system has it already. But 'modern' Linux users would not even
know anymore what this all means and how to interact with configure...


Bye Fridger