Re: roadmap for Lua

["Wesley Smith" <wesley.hoke@...>]

> At this point, the rockspec format (rules files used by LuaRocks to
> build/install modules) is still evolving, mostly to accomodate the
> needs of various modules: some have Makefiles, some don't, some
> makefiles don't have an "install" rule, some makefiles hardcode
> "-shared" to build libraries (which doesn't work on, e.g., OSX, while
> the actual code usually builds fine), etc. Currently, I'm making
> LuaRocks jump through these hoops, but hopefully over time module
> authors will take LuaRocks into consideration and will write more
> rocks-friendly makefiles (I told you I dream big!).
>

What about using Premake (http://premake.sourceforge.net/about) a Lua
based and quite flexible Makefile/autotools replacement.  It can
generate VS projects among other things.  It's compiled as an app but
I bet it could easily be made into a module for distribution with
Rocks and would save you a good chunk of dev time supporting multiple
different methods of making projects.

wes