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

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Mar 9, 2013, at 13:19, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Perhaps my platforms and the required rocks just happen to have given
me that impression.

I do think that luaBuild is kind of the other side of LR. They would
go nicely, integrated together.