Re: [ANN] lua-zmq & lua-zmq-threads 1.1

[Josh Simmons <simmons.44@...>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Robert G. Jakabosky
<bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10, liam mail wrote:
>> On 10 August 2011 12:44, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Robert G. Jakabosky
>> >
>> > <bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
>> > > Announcing lua-zmq & lua-zmq-threads release 1.1
>> > >
>> > > This release fixes some minor bugs, improves support for Windows, and
>> >
>> > adds
>> >
>> > > bindings to ZeroMQ's stopwatch interface (a high resolution timer).
>> > >
>> > > lua-zmq [1] provide complete Lua bindings of the ZeroMQ [2].  ZeroMQ is
>> > > a light-weight but very powerful messaging library.  With it you can
>> > > scale
>> >
>> > your
>> >
>> > > application from multiple-threads to a cluster of servers.  ZeroMQ
>> >
>> > provides
>> >
>> > > more then just point-to-point messaging, you can do Publish/Subscribe,
>> > > Request/Response (with load balancing), or one-way Push/Pull (also with
>> >
>> > load
>> >
>> > > balancing).  See the ZeroMQ guide [3] which has a lot of Lua examples.
>> > >
>> > > lua-zmq-threads is a sub-module of lua-zmq that wrap lua-llthreads [4]
>> > > to provide Lua with an easy way to start multiple threads that share
>> > > the
>> >
>> > same
>> >
>> > > ZeroMQ context (this allows the threads to use the low-latency
>> >
>> > "inproc://"
>> >
>> > > transport for messages).
>> > >
>> > > Rockspecs:
>> > > https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/raw/master/rockspecs/lua-
>> > > zmq-1.1-1.rockspec
>> > > https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/raw/master/rockspecs/lua-zmq-
>> > > threads-1.1-1.rockspec
>> >
>> > Would it be possible to put official traditional tarballs some place
>> > for make it easier for distro packagers? Its kinda inconvenient with
>> > git snaptshots when you have to maintain stable distro releases.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Natanael Copa
>>
>> Git allows tagging which this project has used therefore I would think [1]
>> is the correct download link for version 1.1, although saying that a
>> redirect from something like
>> www.someurl.com/lua-someproject-latest-stablewould be a good idea.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-llthreads/zipball/v1.1
>
> Here are the tarball links (tar.gz format):
> https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-llthreads/tarball/v1.1
> https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/tarball/v1.1
>
> or in zip format:
> https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-llthreads/zipball/v1.1
> https://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq/zipball/v1.1
>
> If these links don't work for distro releases let me know.
>
> --
> Robert G. Jakabosky
>
>

On a side note it'd be nice if the auto generated tarballs would play
nice with luarocks so I don't have to mess around creating zips
specifically tailored to luarocks' rather inconvenient folder
structure.

On topic though, are there any breaking changes in the new lua-zmq
that I should know about?

Cheers,
Josh.