[ANN] Lua/APR 0.6 (Apache Portable Runtime binding)

[Peter Odding <peter@...>]

Hi list,

I first announced my intention to create a Lua binding to the Apache 
Portable Runtime library [1] back in 2007 [2]. I guess the announcement 
back then was a bit premature but it's finally here!

 - Homepage: http://peterodding.com/code/lua/apr/
 - Documentation: http://peterodding.com/code/lua/apr/docs.html
 - Git repository: http://github.com/xolox/lua-apr

For those who have never heard of APR: it's a library that powers 
software such as the Apache web server and SVN revision control system. 
The Lua/APR binding aims to bring most of the functionality in APR to 
Lua. The following functionality has been implemented so far:

 - Base64 encoding
 - Cryptography routines
 - Environment manipulation
 - File path manipulation
 - Filename matching
 - Directory manipulation
 - File I/O handling (not quite done yet)
 - String routines
 - Time routines
 - Uniform resource identifier parsing
 - User/group identification
 - Universally unique identifiers

I hope you like it but can't make any promises about stability -- the 
library works great for me but hasn't seen a lot of use. If you have 
questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. I'd love to hear from you!

 - Peter Odding

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Portable_Runtime
[2] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2007-03/msg00309.html