Re: [ANN] slingshot 7 released

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 7:19 AM, Gary Vaughan <gary@vaughan.pe> wrote:
> Slingshot releases rocks!
>
> I am happy to announce the release of Slingshot version 7.
>
> Slingshot's home page is at http://github.com/gvvaughan/slingshot
>
> The idea of Slingshot is to provide a common infrastructure to
> build and release luarocks from Lua packages on github, automating
> administrative project tasks such as:
>
>   - managing a separate github release branch
>   - generating rockspec files
>   - making luarocks uploads
>   - emailing release announcements
>   - bootstrapping autotools
>   - launching Specl checks
>
> This is the first public release of Slingshot, though I have been
> using it to manage releases of stdlib, luaposix, lyaml, Specl, Zile
> and others for more than a year now, where it has saved me a metric
> bucket-load of time.  I'd be delighted if it can help improve your
> workflows too.
>
> Feedback, especially in the form of patches, always welcome!
>
> * Noteworthy changes in release 7 (2014-07-31) [stable]
>
> ** New Features:
>
>   - Slingshot now requires a LuaRocks binary that supports the
>     upload command (such as the 2.2.0 beta release) and uses that to
>     upload rockspecs directly to the moonrocks repository, rather
>     than emailing the luarocks-developer list with an upload request.
>
>   - `mkrockspecs` accepts a new `--branch` option for generating a
>     git/scm rockspec that pulls that branch instead of master.
>
>   - `mkrockspecs` accepts a new `--repository` option to cope with
>     releasing a LuaRock from a repository with a different name, e.g:
>     `stdlib-36-1.rockspec` from `http://github.com/rrthomas/lua-stdlib`.
>
>   - Slingshot bootstrap will check rockspecs listed in $buildreq,
>     according to the URL part of a specification-triple ending in
>     `.rockspec`.  So that we don't have to install, say, LDoc twice for
>     Travis (once in the system rocks tree so that bootstrap won't bomb
>     out with a missing rockspec error, and then again in the project
>     rocks tree after luarocks-config.ld has been built by make), the
>     rockspec version checks can be short-circuited by setting an APPVAR
>     in bootstrap's environment, e.g:
>
>         LDOC=`pwd`/luarocks/bin/ldoc ./bootstrap
>
>   - Slingshot bootstrap accepts a new `--luarocks-tree` option to
>     check a particular tree for prerequisite rocks.
>
>   - `build-aux/merge-sections` has a new `--verbose` flag that reports
>     progress to stderr in real time.
>
>   - Remove m4/ax_compare_version.m4 and dependencies, resulting in a
>     slightly faster and smaller configure.
>
> ** Bugs fixed:
>
>   - `bootstrap` now has `slingshot_copy` merged in correctly.
>
>   - `mkrockspecs` generates build.modules keys correctly for the
>     `foo/bar/init.lua` pattern.
>
>
> Install it with LuaRocks, using:
>
>     luarocks --server=http://rocks.moonscript.org install slingshot 7
>
> Or, with a recent enough luarocks binary:
>
>     luarocks install slingshot 7
>
> If the latest rocks are not yet available from the official repositories,
> you can install directly from the slingshot release branch, with:
>
>     $ luarocks install \
>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gvvaughan/slingshot/release-v7/slingshot-7-1.rockspec
>

So is it called "slingshot" because it's a tool that makes it easy to
launch rocks? :D

/s/ Adam