Re: My Lua Rant: Installing LuaDoc

[Eric Man <lericl.mailbox@...>]

There should be a "download source" button on the git page at http://github.com/keplerproject/luafilesystem 
 . The button is quite small. You can use "Command-F" to find it.

Kind Regards,
Eric
On 05/10/2010, at 10:50 AM, Mike McGonagle wrote:

> Well, LuaDoc requires LuaFileSystem, which in turn is only distributed
> as a .git file... (
> http://keplerproject.github.com/luafilesystem/index.html#download ).
> It appears that you can access the individual files from the web, but
> I don't wish to try to "recreate" their distribution, only to find it
> doesn't work.
>
> > From just poking around more with the LuaFileSystem, it says that
> there is another way to install it and that by using "luarocks", which
> in effect makes it another dependency that needs to be installed.
>
> I'm sorry, but it just appears that there is a lot more that I need to
> learn, but I wish I could find the time. As I am just a hobbyist, I
> should probably just shut up and work with what I can...
>
> Mike
>
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Jim Whitehead II  
> <jnwhiteh@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you possibly elaborate on why you need git? It should be  
> > possible to
> > get a snapshot of whatever you need without git, depending on the  
> > particular
> > situation.
> >
> > - Jim
> >
> > On 5 Oct 2010 00:23, "Mike McGonagle" <mjmogo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > OK, I know that this is probably not the best thing to do, but it
> > > really is one thing that has started to piss me off about a lot of  
> > > the
> > > newer things that I would like to check out...
> > >
> > > I was looking at LuaDoc today, and it said that there are only two
> > > dependencies... OK, yes, directly, there are only two dependencies,
> > > but those two dependencies have a few of their one, and one of  
> > > them is
> > > being forced to use "Git". But because I have an older Mac OS X
> > > system, I am limited to using G4 code, and so far, all that I have
> > > been able to find for the Mac for Git is all on the Intel systems.  
> > > Or,
> > > if I want to use an older system, I have to install the whole  
> > > MacPorts
> > > system.
> > >
> > > So, now a simple Lua system (or something I thought was simple), has
> > > not only the two dependencies it claims, but it also requires that I
> > > install Git, which in turn requires that I either upgrade my  
> > > hardware
> > > (which is isn't going to happen), or I install another Port system  
> > > for
> > > Linux (I already have Fink installed).
> > >
> > > I just wish that there were some simple methods to install these
> > > things that were PORTABLE. Yeah, I know, some of you will just  
> > > tell me
> > > that I need to get with the times, but hey, sorry, I don't have the
> > > money that you do to buy a new machine ever time a new generation of
> > > software comes out.
> > >
> > > I guess the next machine I should buy is a Linux machine... but that
> > > won't happen for a while...
> > >
> > > Thanks for allowing me to vent...
> > >
> > > Mike