Re: [ANN] lsocket - Another library for sockets in lua

[Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>]

On 27 March 2013 10:16, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Egil Hjelmeland
> <privat@egil-hjelmeland.no> wrote:
>> If unix sockets also were supported, I could actually use it.
>
> Curiously enough, there's a parallel thread on the luarocks list about
> the state of Lua networking libraries.

Sounds like I ought to be there... :)

> Innovation is great, but it's also worth concentrating some effort on
> the standard libs.  There seems to be this idea that 'luasocket is
> dead' because it isn't moving as fast as people want.  There are about
> 24 forks of luasocket on github, and no obvious way of finding out
> what their state is.
>
> Maybe Diego is simply too busy to continue being the maintainer?
>

Prosody is desperate for a new LuaSocket release (many of the new
changes, including IPv6 support, came from the Prosody community). I
heard from Diego last week that he *is* intending to release real soon
now...

Regards,
Matthew