Re: [ANN] LuaRocks 3.0.4

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> Op Wo., 31 Okt. 2018 om 01:57 het Hisham <h@hisham.hm> geskryf:
> 
> > This is a quick announcement that version 3.0.4 of LuaRocks, the Lua
> > package manager, has been tagged and uploaded to the usual locations.
> > You can find all links at https://luarocks.org — source packages for
> > all supported platforms and binaries for Windows and Linux x86-64 are
> > available.
> 
> This is not criticism, it's just a comment from a Lua user, one that
> has never lamented Lua's lack of a Python-like ecosystem.
> 
> What I miss most about version 3 is a seamless transition from version
> 2.2. I understand that 'luarocks install luarocks' cannot work,
> building from source has so far also eluded me, but a binary for Linux
> x86-64 might be painless, I hoped.

  I had the same issue last month; Hisham and I went back and forth a few
times on the LuaRocks Developers mailing list.  Here's the thread:

	https://sourceforge.net/p/luarocks/mailman/message/36416169/

  -spc (It was not a painless upgrade for me either ... )