Re: Lua socket porting

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

Rob Kendrick wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:18:56 +0530
> <abdul.shaik@wipro.com> wrote:
> > I am in the process of porting lua sockets into our VxWork
> > environment.  We are already using Lua version 5.1.2 and I am trying
> > to port the LuaSocket 2.0.2. 
> > I observed the LuaSocket's src directory holding some lua files like
> > (socket.lua, httpd.lua ..etc). Any body please let me know the
> > purpose of these files?  Are they required by the lua interpreter to
> > work with lua sockets? 
>
> Have you looked at them?  I seem to recall that they're just layers of
> API over what LuaSocket provides, to do things like give you
> nicer APIs for using specific protocols.  I can't actually check,
> because LuaForge is down again, but I suspect it's harmless to leave
> them out, and if it isn't, you'll discover that very quickly by just
> trying.

Masterfully understated, your advice to the OP. :-)

> > Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. 
>
> I shall print it out a thousand times!  Muhahahaha! :)

I shall write it in longhand two hundred times, else the 
headmaster will flog me!!! Hahahahaha! ;-)

I'll crawl away now...

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia