Re: Idea: Reference Libraries

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2014-04-22 4:05 GMT+02:00 Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com>:

> Also, the idea of "blessed" libraries had come up in the past.
...
> (by motivated individuals).

Ay, there's the rub.  So far the tendency has been for the list to
nominate with great enthusiasm the maintainers of stdlib, LuaDist
etc, and for these to say thanks, but no thanks, for being asked to
do what they are already doing, but now under Ruby-like community
supervision.

We're slowly moving into the direction where LuaRocks can provide
much of the blessedness. It already provides convenient installation,
detection of one's preferred Lua version and a large selection.
All that it lacks is a blessing mechanism such as stackoverflow
has. Surely that software must be open-source?