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On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 06:59, Thomas Harning Jr. <harningt@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Alexander Gladysh <agladysh@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 20:47, Thomas Harning Jr. <harningt@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Definitely do not rely on http://cloud.
>>
>> And be careful with download URLs — GH did break them several times.
>>
>> I, personally, am using tags in all my rocks.
> Tags would be great and would save distribution requirements, however
> it would add a git software requirement on the user of the luarock...
> though.. doesn't LuaRocks pull down source rocks when needed?  I know
> there are source rocks that contain everything, but was never clear on
> when/if these were pulled down by a normal "luarocks install luajson"
> process

For most end-users what is originally written in the source clause of
a rock does not actually matter, since Hisham packs everything to the
main LR repo when he publishes a rock.

So, only advanced users are affected, and no one complained yet.

Alexander.