Re: Looking for rockers...

[Hisham <h@...>]

On 4 October 2013 04:37, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
> Am 04.10.13 08:51, schrieb Thijs Schreijer:
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On
>>> Behalf Of Marc Balmer
>>> Sent: donderdag 3 oktober 2013 21:18
>>> To: Lua mailing list
>>> Subject: Looking for rockers...
>>>
>>> The subject says it all...
>>>
>>> we have several Lua modules, written in C, that we use in our
>>> commercial, proprietary, closed source etc. applications, but which we
>>> publish under an open source license.
>>>
>>> That code is on github.  We would like to see some adoption of that
>>> code, especially the PostgreSQL client interface luapgsql.
>>>
>>> while we at micro systems think that providing modules like a Lua
>>> binding to PostgreSQL as open source and free software is the way to go,
>>> we don't have the ressources to make it available as "LuaRocks" or for
>>> other OSes than Unix like OSes.
>>>
>>> So we are looking for someone who would take our stuff, package it as
>>> needed to make it available on as many platforms as possible.  An open
>>> source maintainer.
>>>
>>> Contact me, if interested.
>>>
>>> - Marc
>>>
>>
>> It might help to add a list of modules, or some links...
>
> Heh, sure thing ;)  It's all on github, github.com/mbalmer

I took a stab at writing rockspecs for these!

http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-scm/luaproxy-scm-1.rockspec
http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-scm/luafcgi-scm-1.rockspec
http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks-scm/luapgsql-scm-1.rockspec

We have a problem with luajson: the name is already taken.

Note that these are "scm" rockspecs: they point to the latest sources
in your SCM (source control manager), i.e., your git master HEAD. So,
they are not on the main repository (
http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks ). Please tag version numbers
in your repo (something like `git tag v0.1` is fine), and I'll make
versioned rockspecs and upload the to the main repository (these have
the advantage of not being "moving targets", so the repository keeps a
copy of the sources, and other rockspecs may specify it as
dependencies).

Thank you!!

Ah, in the process of writing this I added a new command to LuaRocks,
called `luarocks write_rockspec` which writes a rockspec template for
a project. It's now in the LuaRocks git and will feature in the next release.
(For those who maintain existing rockspecs, make sure you don't miss the
`luarocks new_version` command for updating rockspecs -- it's pretty
useful!)

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/