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

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> Perhaps I'm emphasizing pragmatism around the idea that the maintainer
> can mostly likely support only a limited number of methods,
> consistently well.

It spreads the load - the original developer doesn't worry about
portable packaging, and so forth. The maintainer is the ultimate kind
of fan of the project, really.

> Hisham need not judge the merits of a module. But the LuaRocks
> ecosystem is only slightly less lawless than grabbing a zip file,

It's much more convenient than that.  My first Linux experience was
Fedora, and the RPM dependency chase nearly put me off for life.  It
_was_ usually easier to grab the archive and built it myself.
Encountering a system like apt where dependencies were tracked made so
much more sense, and that's what LuaRocks has provided.   What you see
as lawlessness, I would see as a pragmatic state of freedom ;)

steve d.

PS. OK, LR needs some work on Windows. With a new binary standard, old
LfW retired, things can only get better.