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.
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Jim Whitehead II <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. And here's a new Win32 package: http://luarocks.org/releases/luarocks-2.0.3-r2-win32.zip It's untested; I just replaced wget.exe with curl.exe (and the corresponding change in install.bat). I used the "SSH2, SSL, SSPI version" from here: http://www.paehl.com/open_source/?CURL_7.21.1 One thing I wonder: is there interest in these stand-alone Win32 zip packages we publish at luarocks.org or could we just delegate Windows deployment to the Lua For Windows project, who seems to do a fine job at that? -- Hisham _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
