Re: How to distribute Boyer-Moore code?

[ketmar <ketmar@...>]

On Sat, 03 May 2008 10:50:59 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> For all that I'm sure rocks are nice and all, CPAN is pretty much an
> accepted standard distribution method for perl.  Rocks are not (yet)
> such a "standard" for Lua.
and it will never be if developers won't do rocks.

> Furthermore, if one happens to be a debian user/developer, debs are
> often more desirable for various reasons, so effort spent making them
> is, at least, not wasted.
and if one is not, these efforts are wasted. but everyone on every
distro can install rocks and use it.

> Ideally of course, there would be cooperation -- e.g., (1) the
> lua-rocks infrastructure on debian would recognize installed debs as
> being present in the rocks namespace (even though it didn't actually
not the whole world is debian-based. %-)

> download them), and (2) there would be some way of turning packaged
> rocks into debs more or less automatically.
and the right way is build rock and give script to build .deb, not vice
versa, i think.

any packaging system doomed to die if there will be no support from
developers. we'll never get "standard packaging system" if we'll just
waiting for something to magically became "standard". let's use rocks
and turn it in such standard.