Note that Lua doesn't have network support. You'd need an external library like LuaSocket for that. Or use something like wget. Not a problem per se. I would certainly welcome a CPAN like service for Lua :)The software part of the CPAN infrastructure is a Perl-Module (CPAN.pm). Has anybody already written a corresponding Lua module so far? I think that would be a good start towards development and acceptance of further Lua modules.