RE: [ANN] Copas 2 scheduler release

[Thijs Schreijer <thijs@...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
> Behalf Of Hisham
> Sent: maandag 6 april 2015 22:36
> To: Lua mailing list
> Subject: Re: [ANN] Copas 2 scheduler release
> 
> On 6 April 2015 at 09:23, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Copas is a dispatcher based on coroutines that can be used for
> asynchroneous networking. For example TCP or UDP based servers. But it also
> features timers and client support for http(s), ftp and smtp requests.
> >
> > It uses LuaSocket as the interface with the TCP/IP stack and LuaSec for
> ssl support
> >
> > I just tagged a new version of Copas in its Github repo. The new version
> has 2 main features;
> >  - ssl support through LuaSec
> >  - client support (http(s)/ftp/smtp). Notably; http(s) redirects across
> http <-> https
> >
> > The complete list;
> >  - Added: removeserver() function to remove servers from the scheduler (by
> Paul Kulchenko)
> >  - Added: client requests for http(s), ftp, and smtp (like
> LuaSocket/LuaSec, but async)
> >  - Added: transparent async support (handshake, and send/receive) for ssl
> using LuaSec
> >  - Added: handler() as a convenience for full copas and ssl wrapping
> >  - [breaking] Change: the loop now exits when there is nothing more to do
> >  - [breaking] Change: dummy first argument to new tasks removed
> >  - Fixed: completed the socket wrappers, missing functions were added
> >  - Fixed: connect issue, step() errorring out instead of returning nil +
> error
> >  - Fixed: UDP sockets being auto closed
> >  - Fixed: the receivePartial function for http request support (by Paul
> Kulchenko)
> >
> > Though I don't expect the 2 breaking changes to have any impact or break
> anything. I bumped to 2.0 anyway, just in case.
> >
> > The code is available in the github repo, not yet through LuaRocks due to
> some upload issues.
> 
> Upload issues fixed, so you can just run
> 
>    luarocks install copas
> 
> to enjoy the latest release.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Hisham

And the docs are up as well at http://keplerproject.github.io/copas/ 

Thijs