Re: missing functions (luafilesystem) ?

[Robert Hibberdine <bob.hibberdine@...>]

There's a posix library at
   http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/
that includes some of these.

I thought luafilesystem was designed for the kepler project and so 
didn't have all feature on purpose?

Bob

Mildred wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm actually using luafilesystem but I think it would be great to have
> others functions :
> - a recursive flag for mkdir
> - a copy function (which would be able to copy folders)
> - maybe some functions to know if a file exists
> - basename and dirname
> - chmod, chown
> - a way to create named pipes on unix systems (mkfifo)
>
> Why these functions are missing ?
> If youre interested, I can try to make a patch.
>
> Also there are others functions that i want to see in the main library
> (since I have to include them on almose evry project I have in lua) :
> - try(function, functionHandler) : do a ppcall on function and call
> functionHandler on error
> - class(parentClass, table) : metatable(table).__index=parentClass
> - addmetatable(object, key, value) : instead of :
> 	local mt = getmetatable(object)
> 	mt[key]=value
> 	setmetatable(object, mt)
>
> Mildred
>
>