Re: [ANN] Nancy release 671

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>  I appreciate the flexibility of LuaBinaries, and if I need to deploy Lua
>  cross-platform again, I'm likely to use it. But I appreciate the ease of
>  ActivePerl more. If LuaBinaries had a way of building all-in-one installers
>  from the components you wanted built using the same framework, it would be
>  much more attractive, particularly if it could build MSI files for Windows
>  with some of the magic that the ActivePerl installer has. Or maybe just a
>  single installer that installs Lua and LuaRocks and then uses LuaRocks to
>  install whatever other components are desired.

The current LuaRocks package for Windows does include Lua from
LuaBinaries, so one has to install only one package, and then just use
LuaRocks to install other components. Granted, it does not have a GUI
installer yet.

-- Hisham