Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> 
> The problem has two parts:
> 
> 1. The name of the module is often a common word like "paths"
> which may easily be non-unique.
> 2. The name under which the module is contributed to LuaRocks
> is not the same as the name that comes in "require".

  The worst example of #2 that which I've found is Lua XML.  The LuaRocks
module is "luaxml".  The file is "LuaXml", which creates (at least under Lua
5.1 which I'm still using) a global "xml".  It's a real mess.

  -spc