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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:59 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 12:41 PM,  <pj@pjb.com.au> wrote:
>> It's unfortunate to have namespace conflicts in such basic stuff as
>> posix and curl. It reminds me of JavaScript; it means my app should
>> test for curl.new == None  and use different code accordingly...
>
> Oh yes, especially posix - that's really basic functionality.  E.g.
> because both posixes are in the LuaRocks repository, I cannot make
> 'lposix' a dependency on a LR module/script without potentially
> messing up some script that uses 'luaposix'.

fwiw, luaposix is maintained. lposix is not or luaposix would never
existed in first place.

-- 
Natanael Copa