Copyright 1999-2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc. LuaForge Project News http://luaforge.net LuaForge Project News Highlights Coxpcall 1.12 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1646 Coxpcall encapsulates the protected calls with a coroutine based loop, so errors can be dealed without the usual pcall/xpcall issues with coroutines. Using Coxpcall usually consists in simply loading the module and then replacing Lua pcall and xpcall by copcall and coxpcall. Coxpcall 1.12 changes: * Added stack traces Coxpcall is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1. Coxpcall can be downloaded from its LuaForge page. You can also get Coxpcall using LuaRocks: luarocks install coxpcall Coxpcall Andre Carregal Fri, 09 May 2008 5:29:17 GMT Rings 1.2.1 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1645 Rings is a library which provides a way to create new Lua states from within Lua. It also offers a simple way to communicate between the creator (master) and the created (slave) states. Version 1.2.1 changes: * Fixed bug [#2074] - Rings uses the deprecated function luaL_openlib (patch by Ignacio BurgueƱo) Rings is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1. Rings Andre Carregal Fri, 09 May 2008 12:03:47 GMT LuaFileSystem 1.4.1 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1644 LuaFileSystem is a Lua library developed to complement the set of functions related to file systems offered by the standard Lua distribution. LuaFileSystem offers a portable way to access the underlying directory structure and file attributes. LuaFileSystem is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.1 Version 1.4.1 [07/May/2008] changes: * documentation review * fixed Windows compilation issues * fixed bug in the Windows tests (patch by Shmuel Zeigerman) * fixed bug [#2185] lfs.attributes(filename, 'size') overflow on files > 2 Gb LuaRocks Installation --------------------- luarocks install luafilesystem Unix Installation ----------------- To install on Linux/OSX/BSD, please edit the config file and then call make make install The last step may require root privileges. Windows Installation -------------------- To install on Windows, please copy lfs.dll to your package.cpath directory Documentation ------------- Please check the documentation at /doc/us/ for more information. LuaFileSystem Andre Carregal Thu, 08 May 2008 1:48:05 GMT LuaCURL 1.2 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1643 LuaCURL is lua binding for the cURL library. The new luacurl-1.2 is a quick fix to support cURL 7.16.4. LuaCURL Alexander Marinov Thu, 01 May 2008 11:20:41 GMT Lua AIO Distribution 1.6 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1636 lua executable has been extended to start any script file, wxLua.dll supports exotic characters, gd.dll , iup.dll, im.dll, cd.dll, pgsql.dll, snmp.dll, hpdf.dll and ploticus.dll were also added to this distribution. Lua AIO Arnaud Le Ber Sun, 27 Apr 2008 1:58:43 GMT Yueliang 0.3.0 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1626 Yueliang is a Lua front-end implemented in Lua. In version 0.3.0, the native 5.0.3 parser skeleton mostly works, and sample output files of parsing operations are included in the release, covering all of the grammar. Yueliang Kein-Hong Man Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:17:46 GMT Lua-ImageSize 1.0 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1614 A Lua port of the Image::Size Perl module. This is the first release. It has almost all the features of the original Perl version, and a few improvements. Lua-ImageSize Geoff Richards Tue, 08 Apr 2008 7:55:54 GMT Inilazy - Release 1.0.3 http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1598 Inilazy - ini-file parser/creator BugFix release. Changes: * local var's patch (thanks smz) * RE spaces patch (thanks smz) inilazy Alexandr Leykin Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:21:50 GMT Cosmo 8.04.04 Released http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1597 # What is Cosmo Cosmo is a "safe templates" engine. It allows you to fill nested templates, providing many of the advantages of Turing-complete template engines, without without the downside of allowing arbitrary code in the templates. # Changes * Uses LPEG 0.8.1, instead of a patched LPEG 0.7 # Get it luarocks install cosmo Visit http://cosmo.luaforge.net for more information -- Fabio Mascarenhas Cosmo Fabio Mascarenhas Fri, 04 Apr 2008 8:45:31 GMT Inilazy - Release 1.0.2 http://luaforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=1596 + set(table,ini_file_name) function * change whitespaces behaviour inilazy Alexandr Leykin Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:35:14 GMT