Overhaul the config system with Lua

[Walt Ford]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 09:36:34PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Walt Ford wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 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 (!).

I agree, I think all of contrib should be in ports only, but I prefer a
base with Lua.

I didn't know NetBSD put it in their kernel.  I started experimenting with
an embedded interpreter as a replacement for mi_startup() to easily pass
control back to it from subsystems, but I never got too far.

-- 
Walt