Another tool for updating /etc -- lua||other script language bikeshed

[Ivan Voras]

On 03/25/10 09:51, Robert Watson wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Ivan Voras wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't it be nice to have a "blessed" (i.e. present-in-base) script
>> language interpreter with a syntax that has evolved since the
>> 1970-ies? (with a side-glance to C that *has* evolved since the K&R
>> style).
> ...
>> As a possible alternative, or at least to learn about others' opinion
>> on the subject, I'd like to suggest Lua (http://www.lua.org/).
>
> I think there are lots of good arguments for Lua in the base, but that
> etcmerge is definitely not one of them :-).

Of course! Maybe I should have worded it better - my post has nothing 
specifically to do with etcmerge. At most it could serve some future 
developer and/or project.