[ANNOUNCE] LuaSocket 2.0 beta 3

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi all,

LuaSocket 2.0 beta 3 is now available for download from

    http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/professional/luasocket

What's New

The big change for the 2.0 (beta3) release was the adoption of the Lua
5.1 package proposal. There were several bug fixes too (a beta is a
beta, is a beta).

    * New compat-5.1 distribution:
      - Instalation uses new directory structure;
      - Namespace hierarchy is in now back in use (ex. socket.url instead
        of url);
      - All modules call require even for standard libraries;
    * LTN12 avoids coroutines (so you can go wild on the C side);
    * socket.select wasn't calling tm_markstart;
    * Kludge on wsocket.c:sock_send for Windows timeout issue moved to
      buffer.c:sendraw so it's not a kludge anymore;
    * socket.protect only catches errors thrown by socket.try;
    * Fixed udp:sendto to call sock_sendto instead of sock_send;
    * close wasn't returning 1!
    * socket.gettime returns time since Unix Epoch 1/1/1970 (UTC)
    * socket.sleep is robust to interrupts;
    * http.PROXY wasn't working.
    * fixed some of the examples

Please try to find bugs so I can fix them and release a final version
before Roberto releases Lua 5.1. :)

Ho ho ho,
Diego.