Re: [ANN] lua-zmq & lua-zmq-threads 1.1

[Josh Simmons <simmons.44@...>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Robert G. Jakabosky
<bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10, Josh Simmons wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Robert G. Jakabosky
>>
>> <bobby@sharedrealm.com> wrote:
>> > Why do you need to create tarballs for luarocks?
>>
>> Because you can't specify a git tag or branch when using the luarocks scm
>> stuff.
>
> Yes you can.  I use git tags for my luarocks releases.  Looks like the
> luarocks rockspec format documentation is missing info about the
> "source.branch" setting.
>
> Example:
> source = {
>  url = "git://github.com/Neopallium/lua-zmq.git",
>  branch = "v1.1",
> }
>
> The tarball links are only for non-luarocks packaging/install (i.e. for Linux
> distro packaging).
>
> --
> Robert G. Jakabosky
>
>

Well that little tidbit just made my life easier. I wish somebody
would go ahead and document luarocks properly.