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On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 07:26, Thomas Harning Jr. <harningt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Btw, a trick I found for github that I cannot seem documentation for...
> You can transform the HTTPS download
> URLhttps://github.com/downloads/harningt/luajson/luajson-1.3.tar.gz
> ==> to HTTP ==>http://cloud.github.com/downloads/harningt/luajson/luajson-1.3.tar.gz
> to avoid SSL - which makes for convenient LuaRocks usage w/o
> SSLsupport.  Basically  change https -> http and add a "cloud." in
> frontof github.com

Please do not rely on this in rockspec files! GH people change these
URLs every so often.

Instead use Git tags:
https://github.com/lua-nucleo/lua-nucleo/blob/master/rockspec/lua-nucleo-0.0.2-1.rockspec#L3-6

Alexander.