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- Subject: Re: Lua libraries
- From: "Thatcher Ulrich" <tu@...>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:06:26 -0500
On Jan 30, 2002 at 12:43 -0800, Steve Dekorte wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, January 30, 2002, at 02:59 AM, Nick Trout wrote:
> > How do Lua and Python cope with this? I dont think you need admin
> > privileges
> > to install new modules on Python on any platform? (could someone please
> > inform me otherwise?)
>
> (I'm guessing you meant Perl and Python) - They don't cope with it. They
> require the user to set an environment to a fixed path where all the
> shared libs are. Those languages weren't designed for embedding in
> consumer apps. They assume the user is a developer or sysadmin.
No -- Perl has a "use lib 'path/to/libs'" facility, and you can access
the @INC list as well.
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Thatcher Ulrich <tu@tulrich.com>
http://tulrich.com
