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| From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
| Subject: | Re: TODO |
| Date: | Tue, 9 Nov 2004 13:56:53 -0600 (CST) |
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:There may be some other existing small shell/scripting implementation which please Unix programmers but are small enough to embed in other applications.I rather like embryo, the bytecode interpreter is <2500LOC in C. http://www.enlightenment.org/pages/embryo.html (down atm, use google cache)
The main issue I see with using embryo (or small, or Java) or any other byte-code/VM based machine is that it seems to make it much more difficult for the end-user to fix problems on their end. With the existing libtool they can hunt and peck through the scripts and implement local fixes, which may eventually become useful patches sent back to libtool. With a scheme which distributes "compiled" bytecode files, there is no possiblity of the end-user fixing the problem unless he installs the full libtool distribution package to he can modify the bytecode.
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