Re: os.setenv()???

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

David Burgess wrote:
> In the spirit of lua, a compiler independent solution would be nice.
> Yes, you are correct it would mostly a posix subset.
> Diego confirms that he too writes a directory iterator.

This is all good discussion. But let me say that my original intent was 
to say that there are many capabilities that Lua has built in (file I/O, 
a few os functions). But this set is incomplete and therefore other 
libraries need to be brought in. The choice of libraries is many and 
often conflicting and I think this hurts Lua development.

I don't think the extended Posix library or a better file I/O library 
should be included implicitly in Lua. But it would help if these were 
available as separate shared libaries with the standard Lua distro. That 
way programmers could rely on them. Today, if I want to require "posix", 
I had better know that the systems I run on have that shared library 
available.

Maybe this is a slippery slope, but Lua has already accepted that file 
I/O is important, so other file support functions (like mkdir() and 
stat()) seem like they should be important, too.

Maybe this is just a set of collected libraries that can be downloaded 
as a set, like Kepler, but with a much narrower scope. Is there anything 
like that already?

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