Re: Two types of Lua programmer, or two types of Lua code?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

On 27-Feb-16 12:04, Pierre Chapuis wrote:
> Or you could just package the interpreter, the application and necessary
> libraries in a way that your users can use. For Windows, it can be as
> simple as bundling it with Lua Binaries [1] and adding a 2 lines BAT file.
> You don't even have to compile anything.

That's what I was doing some years ago, when there was a single 
universal Windows runtime (MSVCRT.DLL) and most libraries were available 
as precompiled DLLs.
I may be wrong her, (not having been able to use Lua for paid work in 
the latest years, but getting drop-in precompiled libraries does not 
currently seem to be that easy.

Besides, distributing the interpreter and the libraries together with 
each and every Lua program does not strike me as the best solution for 
all cases.

> If you ask your Windows users to install Python, my experience is that
> they will run away too.

Not very reassuring :-)
My users don't seem to be running away, though. To illustrate the point, 
just recently I had trouble akin to a Lua library installation with a 
Python library that was awkward to install on Windows (numpy). In the 
end, I had the user install another Python interpreter (Anaconda) that 
had both numpy included and a package manager to easily get the other 
required libraries.

I be would very glad for a solution to the problem "to run this Lua 
script, you just have to...".

--
  Enrico