Re: Lua distros again

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 29 January 2018 at 11:04, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Pierre Chapuis once stated:
>> > Is there a list of the best essential libraries for Lua?
>> > I want to bundle a small set of high quality
>> > libraries that I will test with Ravi, rather than a huge set of
>> > untested libraries of varying quality.
>>
>> >From the end of 2013 to the end of 2016 I was running a website
>> called Lua Toolbox where community members could endorse
>> the modules they used. The website has been merged into
>> the main LuaRocks website and sadly this feature has been lost
>> in the process, but the top 5 modules at the time were:
>>
>> - luafilesystem
>> - luasocket
>> - lpeg
>> - luarocks
>> - luaposix
>
>   There is, however, large overlap between luafilesystem, luaposix and
> luasocket.  luaposix contains a socket implementation in addition to file
> system calls.  luasocket and luafilesystem are less ... POSIXy than
> luaposix and pretty much just cover the basics in their respective areas (I
> think luaposix has more filesystem calls than luafilesystem and more socket
> related calls than luasocket).
>

There is probably also a lot of overlap with libuv / Luvit package.

>   And um ... who maintains ULua? [1]  They also provide Lua modules for Linux,
> Mac and Windows.
>
> [1]     http://ulua.io/index.html
>

I think ULua is a LuaJIT distro.

Regards
Dibyendu