Re: Lua distros again

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 29 January 2018 at 17:13, Jay Carlson <nop@nop.com> wrote:
> On Jan 29, 2018, at 5:37 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Chapuis <catwell@archlinux.us> wrote:
>>> - luafilesystem
>>> - luasocket
>>> - lpeg
>>> - luarocks
>>> - luaposix
>>
>> Yep, that's pretty much the Lua Big Five!
>
> If I had to add one, it would be luasec, since raw TCP is decreasingly useful on the open web, which is going/gone all-SSL pretty fast.
>
> It would be really cool to have Python Requests (http://requests.readthedocs.io/en/master/ ) but I'm not writing it.

I have used lua-requests successfully in the past, it's pretty nice:
https://luarocks.org/modules/jakeg/lua-requests

It's missing a few features here and there (I think it couldn't do
multipart upload in POST, something like that) but otherwise the API
is just bliss.

-- Hisham