Re: why not use more functionality from the posix standard libc ?

[Jim <djvaios@...>]

On 5/9/19, Gé Weijers <ge@weijers.org> wrote:
> 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.

but introducing an extra lib/header dependency by default (readline)
without using important basic functions (like chdir, rmdir, chmod, ...)
provided by libc (that gets linked in anyway) seems pretty odd to me.
especially since the platform can be detected easily.