Re: Non-uniqueness of module names

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo once stated:
> > Assuming a specific use at the OP's, namely to tell different
> > modules of the same name apart, it's more reliable to test
> > versions
> 
> My modules contain a "version" field that can be used for that.
> If only module writers could agree to have that field and on what is
> inside it...

  Perhaps the version number that matches the LuaRocks version?  As an
example, for the rockspec "org.conman.syslog-2.1.3-3.rockspec", the version
inside would be _VERSION = "2.1.3".

  That's fine for modules that return a table of functions (which is
probably 90% of all modules).  But not all modules need be a table (all the
modules under org.conman.parsers are LPEG expressions).

  -spc