Re: Lua library bank? (Was: Ruby philosophy vs Lua philosophy

[Miles Bader <miles@...>]

steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> writes:
>> Hosting all packages on GitHub does not give you a star rating system,
>> but you can see how popular a given package is, how reactive the
>> author is to bug reports, etc..
>
> But git (and specifically github) isn't everyone's way to doing
> things. It forces people to use a particular way of doing things.
> Granted, Michal Kottman's lua-git means that the _user_ doesn't need
> Git, but still.

Eh?  It doesn't "force people to use a particular way of doing things"
any more than using zip does...

Just because a package downloader stores the packages to be downloaded
in github doesn't mean the package developers have to use github or
git to do their development.  You can easily just use github, and the
git protocol, as a pure distribution mechanism that happens to have
some nice extra features.

[Even if you use them as a simple distribution mechanism, using GH /
git has some big advantages (robustness, future-proofness,
documentation, familiarity, widespread support, tooling, etc) over
adhoc distribution sites and/or mechanisms, simply because they're so
very widely used.]

-miles

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