Re: about lposix

["Leo Razoumov" <slonik.az@...>]

On 10/17/06, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Let me summarize the current state of afairs:
>
> [..snip..]
>
> I can try to coordinate this by extracting the relevant parts of lposix and
> the other libraries as needed. But I cannot do anything about Windows...
> Or if someone else wants to takes this over, it's ok, but we'd still like to
> discuss what shall be included and what shall not. We must avoid bloat.
> Again, the point is that it is simple to include any given function, but
> we have to consider the other requirements: natural Lua interface,
> documentation, ease of porting, etc.
>
> --lhf
>
> [1] http://lua-users.org/wiki/ExtensionProposal
> [2] http://www.keplerproject.org/luafilesystem/index.html

Luiz,
I definitely would like to help with the new lposix development. My
platforms are Linux (main), MS Windows (often) and Mac OS X
(occasionally). I think that we should break monolithic lposix module
in several submodules. I think it was suggested in this mailing list
sometime ago to group process and job related functionality under
"os", file-system stuff under "fs", etc. By doing this we make lposix
more modular.

I would also suggest to create a reasonable test-suite for the
project. Existing "test.lua" in lposix distribution is not good
enough.

--Leo--