Re: [ANN] Specl 3 released

[Romulo <romuloab@...>]

Looks really interesting, but have you considered the MIT or LGPL
licenses instead of GPL?

(I understand you have all the freedom to pick your favorite license,
but most Lua libraries are MIT-licensed)

--rb

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:06 AM, Gary V. Vaughan <gary@vaughan.pe> wrote:
> I am happy to announce the release of Specl 3,
> Behaviour Driven Development for Lua.
>
> This release is a significant upgrade to release 2:
>
> - lyaml was spun out to a separate luarock, now required.
> - Initial support for pending examples, either using the new
>   `pending ()` function, or having an example description with an
>   empty definition.
> - pending and failed expectations are now summarized in the footer
>   of default (progress) and report formatters.
> - Formatters display in color on supported TERM types, ansicolors
>   is now required.
> - Color can be disabled with `--color=no` command line option.
> - Custom formatters are now supported, using the new command line
>   option `--formatter=tap`.
> - `-v` now behaves differently, and simply requests more verbose
>   output from the selected formatter, use `-freport` to select the
>   report formatter like `-v` did in release 2 and earlier.
> - The custom formatters API is documented in README.md.
> - A new TAP formatter was contributed by François Perrad.
> - Error message from invalid Lua in example definitions are now
>   reported correctly.
> - Runner environments are more robust, see README.md for details.
> - Specl no longer uses lua-stdlib (to break a cyclic dependency
>   when using specl to run lua-stdlib spec-files).
> - Many more specifications for Specl were added, now that specl is
>   featureful enough to support BDD development of itself.
>
> Install it as luarock specl-3 (see http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks )
>
> Most simply:
>
>   luarocks install specl
>
> (You may need to wait a while after this announcement lands before the
> rocks are available.)
>
> Specl's home page is at http://github.com/gvvaughan/specl/
>