Re: --lua-exec packaging

[Jacek Wielemborek <wielemborekj1 () gmail com>]

2013/9/5 David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>:
> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 12:04:39AM +0200, Jacek Wielemborek wrote:
> > The way I see it, Ncat --lua-exec scripts could install on Unix to
> > $PREFIX/share/ncat/scripts. This leaves us some room for future
> > $PREFIX/share/ncat/filters ($PREFIX is usually /usr or /usr/local). On
> > Windows (though it's definitely not my district, so feel free to
> > correct me), I'd suggest %ProgramFiles%\Nmap\Ncat\Scripts (and later,
> > filters).
>
> I agree on $datadir/ncat/scripts for the installation directory.
>
> I don't think we should put everything that is in the ncat/scripts
> directory in the source code there. Some of them are demos that are
> better worked into documentation. Some of them are trivial and not
> likely to be ever used.
>
> I think the only scripts I would install, of those existing, are
> httpd.lua and whatismyip.lua.
>
> David Fifield

I believe that echo.lua, discard.lua and echo.lua could be useful as
well - definitely way less than httpd.lua, still - remember that it's
not easy to achieve this kind of functionality on Windows and this way
you could do it not only easily, but also in a portable manner.

What do you think about the search path concept?
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