Bug#384496: ITP: luafilesystem -- filesystem library to the lua language

[Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:21:29PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 07:19:50PM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> 
> > This library includes simple facilities (not ansi C, thus not included
> > in the lua standard library) like directory listing and file locking.
> 
>   Neat library.  Almost the same as mine!
> 
>     http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/lua-fs/docs/manual.html

I've seen it, and it seems similar. But the one I packages (already in
svn) is on luaforge, so I preferred it. Moreover it is portable to Win32
and thus may be more widely adopted.

Since you know better than me the code, could you please compare the two
libs? 

It seems that the one I packaged lacks chmod (It is not portable to
win32). I think it should go to luaposix, next lib on my todo list.
Moreover your lib lacks locking functions, that are portable at least to
win32.

In case you want to package your lib too I can point you to the policy
I'm writing (it becoming really easy to do a lua lib package) and give
you svn access to the repo (pkg-lua).

P.S. Yes, I know. I copied the ITP from the luaexpat one and I forgot to
change some fields :(

Ciao
-- 
Enrico Tassi