Re: LuaRocks search should use not luasec

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Ma., 10 Sep. 2018 om 19:36 het Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com> geskryf:
>
> 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?"

It's actually a direct way of saying "LuaRocks search should use not luasec".
I.e. not only should it not warn, it should not even test whether luasec is
available. We're not transmitting any secrets or downloading any packages,
it's just a search.