Re: Unix Domain Sockets in Lua

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 19:17, Hisham <hisham.hm@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 3. Since I'm trying to live in LuaRocks ecosystem for my current
>> project, I'd like to have a rock that enables the Unix Domain Socket
>> support in LuaSocket. (Or is there an easy way to add it on top by
>> hands?)

> Since we can't just add a target to the make invocation to compile
> socket.unix (a target for that in the top-level Makefile would have
> come handy), one approach would be to make a separate rockspec for the
> extra module, such as the one that follows attached. I think I'd
> rather have it added unconditionally to Unix builds of the LuaSocket
> rock, though. I can think of two ways to do that, but I'm not sure
> which is better: to patch the Makefile to make it build unix.so or to
> change the rockspec to the builtin build type.

Hisham,

Sorry I've delayed my reply so much. :-(

I've finally get to try the rockspec you've provided. It works fine.
Can it be added to the official repository?

Thank you for your help!
Alexander.