[ANN] stdlib 37 released

[Gary Vaughan <gary@...>]

General Lua Libraries

I am happy to announce release 37 of stdlib.

stdlib's home page is at http://rrthomas.github.io/lua-stdlib

Unfortunately, v36 tripped a bug in the LuaRocks installer which made
the release useless.  This is a quick release with a workaround for
that bug, also incorporating some changes based on feedback from the
previous release.

* Noteworthy changes in release 37 (2014-01-18) [stable]

** New features:

 - Lazy loading of submodules into `std` on first reference.  On initial
   load, `std` has the usual single `version` entry, but the `__index`
   metatable will automatically require submodules on first reference:

      local std = require "std"
      local prototype = std.container.prototype

 - New `std.optparse` module: A civilised option parser.
   (L)Documentation distributed in doc/classes/std.optparse.html.

** Bug fixes:

 - Modules no longer leak `new' and `proper_subset' into the global
   table.

** Incompatible changes:

 - `std.getopt` is no more. It appears to have no users, though if there
   is a great outcry, it should be easy to make a compatibility api over
   `std.optparse` in the next release.


Install it with LuaRocks, using:

    luarocks install stdlib 37

Until the rocks are available from the official repository in a few days,
you can install directly from the stdlib release branch, with:

    $ luarocks install \
    http://raw.github.com/rrthomas/lua-stdlib/release-v37/stdlib-37-1.rockspec