Re: LuaSocket development status

[Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@...>]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:51, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Diego, all,
>
> The last release of LuaSocket was almost five years ago (2.0.2, 2007-10-13).
>
> LuaSocket does not have official repository on GitHub (or anywhere
> else, after LF shutdown, but, really who in the right mind would
> consider anything but GitHub for source code hosting nowadays?).
>
> LuaSocket has several forks. On GH there are at least two independent
> fork trees:
>
> https://github.com/sam-github/luasocket
> https://github.com/LuaDist/luasocket

This project contains one more "fork":

https://github.com/SierraWireless/luasched

> This not including various alternative implementations, usually
> residing in a swiss-knife libraries.
>
> I believe that LuaSocket module is very important for Lua ecosystem.
> Its apparent stagnation is bad, even if it is only apparent.
>
> Diego, would it be hard to move official LuaSocket repository to
> GitHub, so we (and others) could send you some pull requests?
>
> Please contact me off-list if you need any help. We can offer some
> man/hours and/or make a donation so you could do that yourself.

So, any input?

Alexander.