Re: Where to advertise/look for libraries (Was: Expanding the standard library functions?)

[Paul Merrell <marbux@...>]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> wrote:
>
> This is incorrect. LuaRocks always supported specifying Lua version in the
> rockspecs. And it features search filtered by Lua version for many years by
> now.
>
> You don't need to embed LuaRocks to use it in that fashion. You can use it
> to fetch modules for use in other apps just fine. Torch, the machine
> learning toolkit, for example, happily uses LuaRocks to install their
> modules. The Neovim editor also uses LuaRocks.
>
> LuaRocks installs modules according to a standard Lua module tree, and you
> can point it to install under any prefix directory, or simply use it to
> fetch modules and copy them over wherever you like!
>
> Give LuaRocks a second try, you might be surprised! :-D

I will. Thanks for the education, Hisham!

Paul

-- 
[Notice not included in the above original message:  The U.S. National
Security Agency neither confirms nor denies that it intercepted this
message.]