Re: To all Lua rock maintainers, take 2 (now with human-friendly reporting), you help is appreciated again

[Daurnimator <quae@...>]

On 14 September 2015 at 07:04, Stefano <phd.st.p@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Based on the previous feedback, I implemented friendly html reporting for
> your convenience.
>
> List of all available modules (i.e. the ones that pass on all 3 OS):
> http://www.scilua.org/ulua_modules.html
>
> List of the build results for each Lua rock taken into consideration:
> http://www.scilua.org/ulua_autobuild.html
>
> Both links are accessible from ULua's main page (which is not my project
> main page):
> http://www.scilua.org/ulua.html
>
> It still needs some finishing touches but should be more useful and
> immediate to read.
> pass : yes: nothing to worry about
> pass : excluded: installation was not attempted for the given reason
> pass : no: some error occurred, information attached
>
> In general, there is not much you can do for the excluded cases.
> The failed ones (pass : no) are in general fixable, but sometimes
> cooperation among more than 1 maintainer might be needed (rocks contending
> the same module).
> As explained before, I am going to fix *some* of the contended module issues
> by myself where it makes sense (for instance: metalua-*).
>
> Please let me know if something is still unclear.
>

I noticed many rocks have been excluded on OSX.
I think these are the ones that specify "unix" in the supported_platforms.
You should duplicate the config/code at:
https://github.com/keplerproject/luarocks/blob/cc90426cad683caade7a24a7129445784152b448/src/luarocks/cfg.lua#L91