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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 3:54 AM, steve donovan
<steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Hisham <hisham.hm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does any module require lposix specifically (ie, being dependent on
>> lposix and incompatible with luaposix)? Would anyone mind if it was
>> removed from the LuaRocks repository?
>
> A quick grep through the repo reveals exactly one package dependent on lposix;
>
> tethys-2.0.3-1.rockspec

Updated tethys to 2.0.3-2 switching it to use luaposix (a scan through
the sources indicated it does not use dup() or exec(), which are the
two incompatible functions according to [1]). Removed lposix from the
main LuaRocks repository.

-- Hisham

[1] http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2008-01/msg00664.html