Re: LuaRocks survey

I say you should just use LuaRocks and publish your things if you want LuaRocks users to use it.

It's not like you need to be some sort of LuaRocks power user for that.

As for failing to get others to publish your modules for you, most of times we cant even know some libraries exist.

Which is why I believe in having a "central repository" for looking them up And I believe this repository should be LuaRocks.

Of course you don't have to agree, but I wouldn't be volunteering my time on it for free if I didn't firmly believe on that.

Cheers

2016-01-31 14:39 GMT+01:00 Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch>:

> Am 31.01.2016 um 14:10 schrieb Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com>:
>
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 30.01.2016 um 18:26 schrieb Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net>:
>>>
>>> Hey folks,
>>>
>>> We had some discussions about the ecosystem recently, specially concerning how exactly people decide to share or search external libraries, both here at the mail list and during FOSDEM's devroom.
>>>
>>> Next month I'm gonna spend a month volunteering to LuaRocks' website and I decided to make a survey to see if my priorities are on point or if there are things me and Leaf overlooked! I also enjoyed the opportunity to talk to Hisham and add some questions relevant to him and the LuaRocks tool itself
>>>
>>> Would you please answer some questions?
>>>
>>
>> Done.
>>
>> Though I am thinking of starting a discussion about Lua ecosystems, the need for them (or not), here online.
>>
>> My main concern, in all brevity: How could someone who does not use LuaRocks (me) still make sure his (mine) stuff can be used by someone who uses LuaRocks (you)?
>>
>
> I would publish my work as is, announce it here and ask somebody to
> make a rockspec for it. LPeg rock seems to be created like this.

I actually did this. Several times even, especially for luapgsql (github.com/mbalmer/luapgsql), but no success so far.

Etiene Dalcol

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