It was thus said that the Great Hisham once stated:
> On 19 April 2014 21:29, Sean Conner <s...@conman.org> wrote:
> >
> > I've just finished writing the rockspec for org.conman.iconv, a wrapper
> > for the iconv() library call to transform strings from one character set to
> > another.
> >
> > Yes, the actual module is called "org.conman.iconv". The modules I write
> > I usually stick under the "org.conman" namespace and while this didn't go
> > over that well on the main Lua mailing list, it wasn't because of the
> > concept (namespaces are good) but the actual namespace used (org.conman).
> > I'm not sure how people here will react though.
>
> I see absolutely no problem with that. The Lua world handles
> namespaces too naively, and that has led us to clashes in the past,
> and with core Lua even! Remember that in Lua 5.2pre bit32 was called
> bit? And now there are already `utf8` modules out there that are about
> to clash with Lua 5.3.
Thanks.
But I did find a bug with the module, and I already have an update. Sigh.
Rockspec attached.
-spc
package = "org.conman.iconv"
version = "1.1.1-1"
source =
{
url = "https://raw.github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/iconv-1.1.1/src/iconv.c";
}
description =
{
homepage =
"https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/blob/iconv-1.1.1/src/iconv.c";,
maintainer = "Sean Conner <s...@conman.org>",
license = "LGPL",
summary = "Lua wrapper for IConv",
detailed = [[
A Lua module that wraps the iconv library call. It's simple to use:
iconv = require "org.conman.iconv"
trans = iconv.open("iso-8859-1","utf-8") -- from ISO-8869-1 to UTF-8
x = This is \255 test" -- in ISO-8869-1
y = trans(x) -- to UTF-8
]]
}
dependencies =
{
"lua ~> 5.1"
}
external_dependencies =
{
ICONV = { header = "iconv.h" }
}
build =
{
type = "builtin",
copy_directories = {},
modules =
{
['org.conman.iconv'] = "iconv.c"
},
}
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