Almost ready to release 2.0.1

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Diego Nehab 2006-04-20 04:16:23 +00:00
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@ -88,8 +88,9 @@ Author: <A href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego">Diego Nehab</a>
<p>
LuaSocket version 2.0.1 is now available for download! It is
compatible with Lua&nbsp;5.0 and has been tested on
Windows&nbsp;XP, Linux, and Mac OS X.
compatible with Lua&nbsp;5.0 and Lua&nbsp;5.1, and has
been tested on Windows&nbsp;XP, Linux, and Mac OS X. Chances
are it works well on most UNIX systems.
</p>
<p>
@ -103,13 +104,13 @@ contains several examples, this user's manual and basic test procedures.
<p>
Danilo Tuler is maintaining Win32 binaries for LuaSocket, which are also
available from LuaForge. These are compatible with the
<a href=http://luaforge.net/projects/luabinaries>LuaBinaries</a>
available from LuaForge.
<a href=http://luaforge.net/projects/luabinaries>LuaBinaries</a>,
also available from LuaForge.
</p>
<p>
For those that want to give LuaSocket a quick try, download the
stand-alone archive and unpack everything into
If you are using Lua 5.0, and want to give LuaSocket a quick
try, download the stand-alone archive and unpack everything into
a directory, say <tt>c:\luasocket</tt>. Then set <tt>LUA_INIT</tt> to load
the <tt>compat-5.1.lua</tt> and set <tt>LUA_PATH</tt> and
<tt>LUA_CPATH</tt> to look for files in the current directory:
@ -135,6 +136,23 @@ Lua 5.0.2 Copyright (C) 1994-2004 Tecgraf, PUC-Rio
--&gt; the source to this web page gets dumped to terminal
</pre>
<p>
If you are using Lua 5.1, you shouldn't use
<tt>compat-5.1.lua</tt>. Just unpack the standalone
directory, set <tt>LUA_CPATH</tt> and <tt>LUA_PATH</tt>, and
you should be ready to run:
<p>
<pre class=example>
c:\luasocket\&gt; set LUA_CPATH=?.dll
c:\luasocket\&gt; set LUA_PATH=?.lua
c:\luasocket\&gt; lua5.1
Lua 5.1 Copyright (C) 1994-2006 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
&gt; http = require"socket.http"
&gt; print(http.request"http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~diego/professional/luasocket/"
--&gt; the source to this web page gets dumped to terminal
</pre>
<p> When you are done playing, take a look at the
<a href=installation.html>installation</a> section of the manual to find out
how to properly install the library. </p>