Re: Lua-friendly OSes

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:15 AM, steve donovan
> <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2011/10/21 Michal Kolodziejczyk <miko@wp.pl>:
>>> I am using ArchLinux - it has some lua related packages, and it has
>>> luarocks, so you can install even more lua packages. The problem is of
>>> course using 2 differnet repositories (luarocks vs linux distro).
>>
>> The duplication issue is a problem, and it isn't easy to solve. LR
>> does not recognize the distro's luasocket (say) as satisfying the
>> requirement for luasocket, and so installs it again.  The version that
>> actually gets used depends on how the module path is organized
>> (usually system first on Debian, but no guarantees)
>>
>> It would be cool if there were 'virtual' LR packages that would point
>> to the repo packages, but there's a lot of differences out there!
>
> >From distro makers viewpoint, it would be awesome if you could download a
> lua-module-$version.rock.tar.gz package, unpack it
> and luarock build and luarock install --destdir=$staging_root (note
> that the download operation should be from the packaging framework and
> that you need separate build and install stages + a possibility to
> specify the staging root)
>
> Its fairly easy to build distro packages with pythons setup.py and
> perl cpans. Its cumbersome/ugly with ruby gems (but possible) but it
> is (was?) close to impossible with luarocks.

We've made some progress in this direction, but I don't think we're
fully there yet. If you're interested in seeing this happen, please
feel encouraged come help us out in the luarocks-developers mailing
list. We'd like to know what exactly works and what doesn't in this
scenario (as I understand requirements change somewhat from distro to
distro).

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/ - http://luarocks.org/