Bug#384496: ITP: luafilesystem -- filesystem library to the lua language
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:43:27AM +0200, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> 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.
I don't think luaforge was very well established when I started
writing with lua.
> Since you know better than me the code, could you please compare the two
> libs?
The summery you've given already seems fair.
> 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.
Right.
> 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).
I'd look forward to seeing that. Right now I have packages of my
two lua libraries already via http://www.steve.org.uk/apt/
> P.S. Yes, I know. I copied the ITP from the luaexpat one and I forgot to
> change some fields :(
No problem. I'll be looking forward to working with your lua packages
in the future. The posix library I remember looking at looked
non-free, but it could well be the case we're talking about different
libraries!
Steve
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