I agree with Jim - it should be a cmake setting, defaulting to Python. If the 
person building lldb wants to change the default scripting language from Python 
to Lua, it should be easy. Since we now support 2 scripting languages, we 
should have an easy way for the user to see which are supported, and which is 
the default if there are more than 1 supported. Maybe in lldb --version?

Ted

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From: lldb-dev <lldb-dev-boun...@lists.llvm.org> On Behalf Of Jim Ingham via 
lldb-dev
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:43 PM
To: Ed Maste <ema...@freebsd.org>
Cc: LLDB <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org>
Subject: [EXT] Re: [lldb-dev] Default script language

Right now, Lua is not nearly as well supported as Python, so it makes sense 
that if both Python and Lua are available Python should be the default.  But at 
some point Lua will become an equal to Python.  When that happens, it seems to 
me the default scripting language choice should be up to the package 
distributor.  I don’t see why we need to weigh in on that.  That would imply 
that the default should be an independent build setting.  Not sure that means 
we need to do it that way now, but if we don’t want to do it twice…

Jim


> On Apr 1, 2020, at 2:09 PM, Ed Maste via lldb-dev <lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org> 
> wrote:
>
> In lldb/include/lldb/lldb-enumerations.h we have:
> eScriptLanguageDefault = eScriptLanguagePython
>
> I'd like to do something like:
> #if LLDB_ENABLE_PYTHON
> eScriptLanguageDefault = eScriptLanguagePython #elif LLDB_ENABLE_LUA
> eScriptLanguageDefault = eScriptLanguageLua #else
> eScriptLanguageDefault = eScriptLanguageNone #endif
>
> if we could include Config.h, or achieve the same effect in some other
> way if we cannot. Does this seem reasonable?
>
> I'm interested in this for lldb in the FreeBSD base system. We have
> lua available already (and no python) and I've integrated our liblua
> it into lldb, but it required "--script-language lua" on the command
> line. For now I'll just change the default to be eScriptLanguageLua in
> our tree, but would like to have this "just work" upstream.
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