On Feb 8, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Tony Trinh ton...@gmail.com wrote:
Hadrial Kaplan wrote:
The problem is if you write a plugin for others to use, requiring them to
compile code is a high bar to expect. So if it's more than just another pure
lua lib which doesn't need c-code to be compiled,
*Guy Harris wrote:*
...
Should we either bundle the LuaFileSystem stuff, at least on platforms
where we bundle Lua with Wireshark rather than relying on the OS to have it
as a package (I guess the packager could make the appropriate Wireshark
package depend on the LuaFileSystem package, if
The problem is if you write a plugin for others to use, requiring them to
compile code is a high bar to expect. So if it's more than just another pure
lua lib which doesn't need c-code to be compiled, as a file/dir accessor would
need, it's tough. :(
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On Feb 8, 2014, at
*Hadrial Kaplan wrote:*
The problem is if you write a plugin for others to use, requiring them to
compile code is a high bar to expect. So if it's more than just another
pure lua lib which doesn't need c-code to be compiled, as a file/dir
accessor would need, it's tough. :(
I agree
On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Tony Trinh ton...@gmail.com wrote:
I *think* Guy was proposing the Wireshark Lua API included the LuaFileSystem
library (or a wrapper around it) out of the box,
I was proposing that as one option, and proposing exposing our own low-level
file system routines as
A recent change to an example on the Wireshark Wiki had code to make a
directory; it does it using os.execute with a mkdir command. It's portable,
but doing system(blah blah blah) (or its Windows equivalent) has always struck
me as a bit of a hack (and potentially fragile, e.g. with string
On Feb 7, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
The latter may handle non-ASCII pathnames better on Windows - a quick look at
the LuaFileSystem seems not to indicate that it does any UTF-8-to-UTF-16
mapping, it just calls _mkdir(), but we map UTF-8 to UTF-16 and call
On Feb 7, 2014, at 8:04 PM, Guy Harris g...@alum.mit.edu wrote:
There's a LuaFileSystem package:
http://keplerproject.github.io/luafilesystem/
that presumably uses standard UN*X calls on UN*Xes and appropriate Windows
calls on Windows.
We also have our own wrappers in the
