Re: Lua for Windows needs help

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

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:22 AM, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 6:04 AM, Stuart P. Bentley <stuart@testtrack4.com> wrote:
>> For the library collection, make a "meta-package" rockspec that installs all
>> these packages (skipping them if not available for the current platform, eg.
>> LuaCOM on anything but Windows).
>
> That sounds like an excellent idea - rockspecs can have per-platform
> overrides so that such a meta-package would only pull in LuaCOM on
> Windows, etc.

I once considered the idea of having a "batteries" meta-package for
LuaRocks to provide rocks that emulate the scripting environment of
LfW as closely as possible. Never got around to do it, but "luarocks
install batteries" had a nice sound to it. :)

-- Hisham