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- Subject: Re: Lua Ecosystem
- From: "Pierre Chapuis" <catwell@...>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 08:37:42 +0100
>> If we adopt the convention I was proposing that the name
>> of the package in LuaRocks should be the top-level thing
>> we require, we already have that centralized authority :)
>
> A problem with LuaRocks is that the name used to install a module isn't
> the actual name of the module you use in Lua---that still doesn't solve
> the issue of overlapping modules. For instance:
>
> [spc]lucy:~>luarocks install luuid
> ...
> [spc]lucy:~>lua
> Lua 5.1.5 Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> uuid = require "uuid"
This is precisely what I am trying to change.
If you require "uuid" then the rock should be called uuid.