Re: [ANN] Tir 0.5 With Real Downloads

[Zed Shaw <zed.shaw@...>]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Fabio Mascarenhas <mascarenhas@acm.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Zed Shaw <zed.shaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'd say my biggest question is on the Install instructions how I can
>> get that list of install commands down to just one single luarocks
>> install line.  It seems kind of silly that I have to have people
>> curling down rockspecs manually to get at specs that are outside the
>> luarocks ecosystem.  Anyone got ideas on telling luarocks that Tir
>> depends on random URLs?
>>
>
> The easiest way to do that is to put up your own repository (copy your
> rockspecs to a directory, run "luarocks-admin make_manifest" on it,
> then upload its contents), then you can install using
> --from=url_for_your_repo. LuaRocks will try to solve any dependencies
> first with your repository and then with the regular ones.

Well, that's rather backwards don't you think?  Why should I have to
craft my own repository just to have luarocks do what it does easily
from the command ilne?  Also, I don't want to be the guy to manage a
special manifest for other people's projects.

There's gotta be something I'm over looking in luarocks that just lets
you use a URL to a rockspec as a dependency.

Zed