Re: Hamster

Hamster is 100% pure Lua only, so bytecode won't be a problem.
But I don't want to go that way anyhow, so not an issue.

Btw, why do you need to recompile luasocket scripts?  I do them 
cross-compiled darwin->win32 and (at least that) works all right. What 
are the issues?

-ak


31.3.2004 kello 01:03, Martin Spernau kirjoitti:

  Jamie Webb wrote:
>
>> Possibility if you don't want to abandon the GPL entirely (since if 
>> you release under a more permissive license in one place, you may as 
>> well everywhere): LuaCheia could include only the bytecode-compiled 
>> form of Hamster, and you could make an exception to the license for 
>> the Hamster sources which permits the compiled code to be used in any 
>> way. This is IIRC the approach taken for the glibc headers, and is 
>> somewhat (and necessarily) more permissive than the LGPL.
>>
> Hmmm, I don't thinks that's a very good solution... we are dealing 
> with bytecode incompatible platform issues already... the socket 
> module is an example for that... we needed to re-compile the Lua 
> scripts on each platform (we had precompiled versions in the CVS to 
> avoid needing luac & bin2c present during build)
>
> -Martin
>
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