Re: [ANN] Lua-Archive library started

[Tom N Harris <telliamed@...>]

On 4/2/2010 6:05 PM, Jon Nalley wrote:
> Nice work!
>
> I am curious why you decided to implement the tar reader in straight
> lua vs. creating lua bindings to a C library like libarchive?
>
> http://code.google.com/p/libarchive/

I like hacking in Lua better than C.

The various list discussions comparing the performance of Lua to other 
languages was also an influence. Particularly seeing how well LuaJIT 
does. It seems to me there's little reason not to write in Lua.

I'm having a problem with opening multiple files inside an archive. Well 
not really a problem, I just seek back to the correct position before 
every read. But this would be so much simpler if I could duplicate the 
handle, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do this other than adding 
a module to export `dup`. Is there something I'm missing that will allow 
this?

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- tom
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