As far as I am aware, luarocks was in the past perfectly capable of using
curl. The first releases definitely did when it was available on the system.
If curl SUPPORT has been dropper in favour of bundling wget, I agree
wholeheartedly. It would make much more sense to distribute statically
linked luasocket, or curl than to mess with wget at all, for the reasons
David lists.
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 3:21 AM, David Manura <[email protected]> wrote:
>> First, why is wget needed?  For the most part, luasockets is
>> sufficient to download files.
>
> This is indeed what LuaRocks does, as soon as luasockets becomes
> available. So wget is just needed for the initial bootstrap (since it
> is unlikely that someone would not want luasockets as part of their
> Lua setup).
>
> Especially now that LR's http proxy support is better.
>
> steve d.
>
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