Re: poor's man "packet" distribution

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

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Emmanuel Oga <emmanueloga@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just requiring the users to checkout, cd to the repo and run
> "make". After that the bash script should work no matter where do you
> call it from, but I'm wondering if there are any better distribution
> guidelines for setups like this? (small lua script plus a C
> module[s]).
>
> I'm thinking of writing a luarock but I think that would be harder for
> users to manage: installing luarocks is non trivial, albeit not really
> that difficult.

In any case, consider yourself encouraged to offer a rockspec as an
alternative, for users who already have LuaRocks installed. I'll be
happy to add it to the repository so that it is a simple "luarocks
install mwalker" away, for LuaRocks users. :)

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