Re: [ANN] luaposix 33.3.1 released

[François Perrad <francois.perrad@...>]

Gary,

in your `.travis.yml`, run your testsuite or add few smoke tests, like this :
     lua -e 'print(require[[posix]].version)'

That is a good way to avoid a broken release.


François

2015-03-01 19:44 GMT+01:00 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@vaughan.pe>:
> A library binding various POSIX APIs, including curses. POSIX is the IEEE
> Portable Operating System Interface standard. luaposix is based on lposix
> and lcurses.
>
> I am happy to announce release 33.3.1 of luaposix.
>
> 33.3.0 was DOA, so I removed it from moonrocks, in addition to fixing the
> packaging problem in 33.3.0, this release includes all the improvements
> from that release, also included in the NEWS extracts below.
>
> luaposix's home page is at http://github.com/luaposix/luaposix/
>
> ## Noteworthy changes in release 33.3.1 (2015-03-01) [stable]
>
> ### Incompatible Changes
>
>   - The briefly lived `posix.system` API has been removed.  It was renamed
>     to `posix.spawn` shortly after introduction, and can still be accessed
>     by the new symbol name.
>
> ### Bugs Fixed
>
>   - `local posix = require "posix"` works again, fixing the regression
>     introduced in the last release.  The automated Travis checks have been
>     improved to catch this sort of bug in future.
>
>
> ## Noteworthy changes in release 33.3.0 (2015-02-28) [stable]
>
> ### New Features
>
>   - Improved documentation of `sockaddr` tables for `posix.sys.socket` calls.
>
>   - New `posix.sys.socket.getsockname` binding.
>
>   - Remove the `posix.bit32` library, and use Lua’s built-in `bit32` library.
>
>   - Can now be linked against NetBSD curses, albeit with several functions
>     not implemented by that library returning a "not implemented" error as
>     a consequence.
>
>   - New functions `popen`, `popen_pipeline` and `pclose` mimic the POSIX
>     functions of the same name while allowing tasks to be Lua functions.
>
>   - `fdopen` has been re-added, working on all supported Lua versions.
>
>   - `execx` allows a Lua function or command to be exec’d; `spawn` is now
>     implemented in terms of it.
>
> ### Incompatible Changes
>
>   - The ncurses-only `KEY_MOUSE` definition has been removed from
>     `posix.curses`.
>
> ### Bugs Fixed
>
>   - `posix.sys.resource` only provides RLIM_SAVED_CUR and RLIM_SAVED_MAX if
>     they are defined by the C library (which FreeBSD 10 does not).
>
>   - `posix.dirent.dir` and `posix.dirent.files` now raise a Lua `error()`
>     when unable to open the path argument, for orthogonality with `io.lines`.
>
>   - Workaround for manifest key clash between `posix.so` and `posix.lua` in
>     LuaRocks.
>
>
> Install it with LuaRocks, using:
>
>     luarocks install luaposix 33.3.1
>
>