Re: [ANN] lua-libmemcached, simple Lua binding for libmemcached

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 16 September 2013 02:11, Francisco <xxleite@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> http://bit.ly/luaLibMem
>
> I'm new to C, any good advice?

Didn't dive into your code to comment on your C, but here's some
peripheral advice:

* "Fun licenses" such as "Beer-ware" are legally problematic. Many
developers which would otherwise be able to use your open source code
(and would gladly buy you a beer upon meeting you) are unable to use
licenses outside of pre-approved lists from their companies' legal
departments. So, my advice is to stick to "standard licenses" -- since
you're going for "do whatever you want" I recommend the MIT/X11
license; you can of course add your "request for beer" in the README
file. :) (And I've had some beers paid for me through paypal over the
years due to a similar note in the htop website :) )

* Don't use bit.ly when you're not physically constrained in space
(ie, anywhere other than Twitter). It would be more informative in
this email if people knew that the above URL is actually:
https://github.com/leite/lua-libmemcached
and you would probably get better feedback. Ditto for the various URLs
in your README.md -- you're adding unnecessary hops and your links
break if bit.ly is inaccessible (also, some people like to mouse-over
links to see where they lead to before clicking (I know this is
spoofable but I trust Github not to do this) ).

* Consider yourself encouraged to tag a release number and submit a
rockspec to the LuaRocks repository. :)

-- Hisham