Re: LuaRocks survey

[Marc Balmer <marc@...>]

> Am 31.01.2016 um 14:10 schrieb Nagaev Boris <bnagaev@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Marc Balmer <marc@msys.ch> wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 30.01.2016 um 18:26 schrieb Etiene Dalcol <dalcol@etiene.net>:
>>> 
>>> Hey folks,
>>> 
>>> We had some discussions about the ecosystem recently, specially concerning how exactly people decide to share or search external libraries, both here at the mail list and during FOSDEM's devroom.
>>> 
>>> Next month I'm gonna spend a month volunteering to LuaRocks' website and I decided to make a survey to see if my priorities are on point or if there are things me and Leaf overlooked! I also enjoyed the opportunity to talk to Hisham and add some questions relevant to him and the LuaRocks tool itself
>>> 
>>> Would you please answer some questions?
>>> 
>> 
>> Done.
>> 
>> Though I am thinking of starting a discussion about Lua ecosystems, the need for them (or not), here online.
>> 
>> My main concern, in all brevity:  How could someone who does not use LuaRocks (me) still make sure his (mine) stuff can be used by someone who uses LuaRocks (you)?
>> 
> 
> I would publish my work as is, announce it here and ask somebody to
> make a rockspec for it. LPeg rock seems to be created like this.

I actually did this.  Several times even, especially for luapgsql (github.com/mbalmer/luapgsql), but no success so far.