Re: LuaRocks search should use not luasec

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 10 September 2018 at 10:16, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 at 03:28, Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> ... or it should use it more effectively.
>>
>> I recently installed 'luasec' because 'luarocks search sqlite' gives
>> me about two seconds to look at this message:
>>
>>     Warning: falling back to wget - install luasec to get native HTTPS support
>>
>> before starting to display Search Results.
>>
>> I looked with gratification at nothing, which turned into dismay when
>> it now gave me nine seconds to do so.
>>
>> I have no experience with luasec, having managed to get by with
>> luacurl, but surely if we are warned that we should install it, it is
>> not unreasonable to expect that the experience will then be better?
>
> Please provide more information for debugging the issue:
>
> Which LuaRocks version was this on? Which Lua version? Which
> OS/distro? Which LuaSec version?
>
> LuaRocks bugs are tracked in
> https://github.com/luarocks/luarocks/issues so feel free to open an
> issue there!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Hisham
>

I don't believe this is a bug report or issue, but a roundabout way to
ask question:
"Why does luarocks warn that luasec isn't available if using wget works fine?"