Re: Where to link to Lua packages on the Wiki?

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On 2/10/08, Duck <duck@roaming.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> I recently wrote a Lua library to do IP-to-country lookup, based on a
> small, free database published by webnet77.com. The idea is that you can
> do something like this:
>
> iso,country = webnet77:lookup('139.82.85.1')
>
> and get an answer like "BR","BRAZIL".
>
> I have twice added a link to this package into the LibrariesAndBindings
> section of the Wiki, only to have had it almost immediately removed on
> both occasions as an inappropriate link -- apparently it counts as a "Lua
> use," not as a library. (It's written as a module and you use it by
> calling require(), so if it isn't a library, what is it?)
>
> So my question is, where does one publish links to this sort of thing on
> the Wiki? And how many other possibly useful little packages aren't on the
> LibrariesAndBindings page as a result of this policy?

Alos, is the wiki really the best place for publishing software? I'd
suggest using luaforge.net instead.

-- Hisham