Re: Lua Ecosystem

[Justin Cormack <justin@...>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Pierre Chapuis once stated:
>> >> If we adopt the convention I was proposing that the name
>> >> of the package in LuaRocks should be the top-level thing
>> >> we require, we already have that centralized authority :)
>> >
>> >   A problem with LuaRocks is that the name used to install a module isn't
>> > the actual name of the module you use in Lua---that still doesn't solve
>> > the issue of overlapping modules.  For instance:
>> >
>> > [spc]lucy:~>luarocks install luuid
>> >     ...
>> > [spc]lucy:~>lua
>> > Lua 5.1.5  Copyright (C) 1994-2012 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
>> >> uuid = require "uuid"
>>
>> This is precisely what I am trying to change.
>> If you require "uuid" then the rock should be called uuid.
>
>   And we get back to my problem---I have a Lua UUID module [1] (right now
> called 'org.conman.uuid') that supports more UUID types than just type 4 (it
> supports types 1, 3, 4, and 5---check out RFC-4122 for details).  I'd like
> to make it available.  What are my options?  I can't call it 'uuid' because
> that's taken (at least twice).
>
>   -spc (and we're right back to namespaces ... )
>
> [1]     https://github.com/spc476/SPCUUID
>

It seems to be called spcuuid, whats wrong with that? And its called
org.conman.uuid, thats fine too. Reduce to one of those and you are
sorted...

Justin