LuaRocks and check authenticity of package

[jason.jackal]

I am new to Lua, and I have started using it since a number of network devices I support use it as a scripting language. However, I have started using it for some general scripting. Due to the latter, I found LuaRocks, but I am unsure. How do I check the authenticity of the packages that I install?

thank you

[norobro]

I have some experience with Lua but have never used LuaRocks.

In checking it out I found this:
Here’s what we’re working on now:


Implementing package signing and integrity verification of package files

This will enable us to verify that files have come directly from package maintainers, preventing any future issues concerning tampering


From here: https://luarocks.org/security-incident-march-2019

HTH

[jason.jackal]

I have some experience with Lua but have never used LuaRocks.

In checking it out I found this:From here: https://luarocks.org/security-incident-march-2019

HTH

Oh.... this is good that they want to introduce it; however, makes me second guess the direction of the ecosystem since it did not have it from start.

How have you liked using Lua? What do you use Lua for? I am just starting in it. Coming from Perl and Python. For some odd reason, I do not like coding in Python; however, it appears to be the industry standard these days.

Thank you for the link and the post.

[norobro]

You're welcome.

I probably should have emphasized "some". Years ago I was helping create/maintain a website that used Lua for its cgi scripts so I was forced to learn the basics. I liked it very much but have hardly used it since. Here is the tool that we used (I notice that it is available through LuaRocks): https://github.com/keplerproject/cgilua

I agree about Python being the accepted standard. I come from a C/C++ background but use Python, almost exclusively, for scripting.

[jason.jackal]

You're welcome.

I probably should have emphasized "some". Years ago I was helping create/maintain a website that used Lua for its cgi scripts so I was forced to learn the basics. I liked it very much but have hardly used it since. Here is the tool that we used (I notice that it is available through LuaRocks): https://github.com/keplerproject/cgilua

I agree about Python being the accepted standard. I come from a C/C++ background but use Python, almost exclusively, for scripting.

Very interesting... thank you for sharing. I have started learning C... again!!! I had it many years ago in college as my programming language, since Commodore Basic nor MOS6502 assembly was offered, and I had no clue what this new language called Java was; however, never did anything with it since I am not a programmer by trade, yet I see benefit in learning it due to memory management and static typed.

Most of what I do is script driven: Perl, Python, Tcl, Lua, etc. Funny, I never get a sense of enjoyment when I use Python as I do with Tcl and Perl. Call me odd..