Re: Batteries included

[Thomas Fletcher <thomas@...>]

Alex Combas wrote:
> Im curious, if there was a "batteries included" version of Lua, which 
> packages and libraries would it have?
>
> Which packages should everyone know about?

Well rather than specific packages, I'll provide my two cents
about technologies that I tend to end up using on a regular
basis:

* Networking
** Client/Server socket support
** Protocol support (HTTP,FTP,IMAP,...)

* Standard file format read/write
** XML SAX/DOM
** CSV

* Filesystem support
** Simplified directory traversal
** Archive file support (tar, zip, gz etc)

Other things I used relatively infrequently, but these are the
items I need on a pretty regular basis.

Thanks,
 Thomas
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Thomas Fletcher
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