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Subject: Re: Overhaul the config system with Lua
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On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Walt Ford wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 01:11:03AM +0800, ?? wrote:
>> I want to overhaul the config system with Lua, and it will be my GSoC 2014
>> project. Here is the
>> proposal<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1azZm8WHBiT_oaQ1fEhUWGiYWyn4hvwxEkMXqf1aR00g/edit?usp=sharing>
>
> That's an excellent project.  I've had Lua in my own base system for
> years and have converted the rc system to use it at various times,
> along with some base utilities.  I've been considering posting a
> Kickstarter project to finally finish it all, but Lua isn't the most
> popular language, and FreeBSD isn't the most popular OS.

Speaking as someone who thinks too much stuff is in base... I'd like to 
see Lua in base.  Or any modern scripting language, but Lua is small and 
has the right license.  NetBSD put it in their kernel (!).