2009/11/24 Taco Hoekwater
If we decide to keep the binary modules support (which is experimental right now) then in the future, it would be nice to build our 'own' lua
That would be very welcome, indeed. It could make lua(tex) not only a common scripting solution, but also a common platform for building kpathsea/TeX aware applications. There are already a few interesting lua based applications, e.g. ps_view, ipe v7 (LaTeX friendly vector graphic editor). I expect projects like these could be quite interested in more open access to luatex and some very innovative solutions could emerge in the process.
dll. But that will require quite some changes to the build scripts as well as a conceptual change to the distribution process. Not easy to integrate that back into texlive.
I admit that I'm blissfully unaware of these hurdles, so I will welcome any advancements that can make luatex more accessible to us mere mortals ;) I see it as a major step in TeX development. Thanks for all the hard work you put into it. Cheers, Tomek