Re: To all rock maintainers, take 3 (now with x64 supports)

[Stefano <phd.st.p@...>]

On 6 Nov 2015 21:23, "Sean Conner" <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>
> It was thus said that the Great Stefano once stated:
> > On 5 November 2015 at 21:27, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >  Your problem is assuming that "org" is the name of my module---it isn't
> > > (and no, I'm not being sarcastic here).  You made an assumption that "foo"
> > > will always be the top level of a module and anything "below" that is a
> > > submodule.  And yes, luasocket works that way, and possibly most modules
> > > work that way (I don't know, while I have downloaded every rockspec from the
> > > LuaRocks website, I haven't don't a full analysis yet) it's not *every*
> > > module.  A repackaged, correct, version of this would be (possibly---it's not
> > > my project and I have no code to try this with):
> > >
> > > org_conman_env
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/__meta.lua
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Linux
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Linux/x64
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Linux/x64/-org_conman_env.so
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Linux/x86
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Linux/x86/-org_conman_env.so
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/OSX
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/OSX/x64
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/OSX/x64/-org_conman_env.so
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/OSX/x86
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/OSX/x86/-org_conman_env.so
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Windows
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Windows/x64
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Windows/x64/-org_conman_env.dll
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Windows/x86
> > > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/Windows/x86/-org_conman_env.dll
> >
> > Among other problems that I can thing of:
> >
> > require 'org.conman.env'
> >
> > How does the package manager know which of the following is correct?
> >
> > org/1_0_1+3/conman_env/...
> > org_conman/1_0_1+3/env/...
> > org_conman_env/1_0_1+3/...
> >
> > Most importantly, the proposed approach does not work with math-evol
> > and math-somethingelse.
> > They necessarily end up in the same math directory.
>
>   You missed the point.  The point is to make the top level directory named
> after the *entire* module name, not just the first portion.  For *every*
> module you install.  So that means you get
>
>         Math_Evol/1_13_0+1/...
>         Math_RungeKutta/1_8_0+1/...
>
> Did you not see the example I gave for luasocket?  Here it is again:
>
>         ltnl2/2_0_2+1/...
>         mime/2_0_2+1/...
>         mime_core/2_0_2+1/...
>         socket/2_0_2+1/...
>         socket_core/2_0_2+1/...
>         socket_ftp/2_0_2+1/...
>         socket_headers/2_0_2+1/...
>         socket_http/2_0_2+1/...
>
>   -spc

I see what you mean now, but it's really messy. We have a folder for each file, even when they are not modules at all.

Stefano