enabling readline support by default on Linux is no good idea btw since
many distros do not install the needed headers/libs in the default install.
Many distros don't install the C compiler by default, for that matter, so you have to do some basic system administration anyway. It gets even more interesting on Windows.
I don't think Lua was intended as a "batteries included" general purpose scripting language like Python, but more as an extension language for people to use in building tools, so it assumes a bit more system administration and/or programming knowledge to get the code built.
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