Re: [ANN] Lift 0.1 looking for early adopters

[Peter Aronoff <telemachus@...>]

On Thursday, February 18, 2016 at 02:50PM, Tim Caswell wrote:
> So the killer features of lit that I'm not willing to part with are:
> 
>  - relative imports for intra-package modules.
>  - scoped package installs (npm style) (vs global paths)
>  - a content-addressable based sync system for downloading and publishing
>    files.
>  - trivially deployed proxy servers or private repositories.
> 
> I would love for there to be one package system for lua in the future.
> Lit isn't there yet and these are places where I find luarocks lacking.

I believe that LuaRocks can do npm-style scoped installs:

http://leafo.net/guides/customizing-the-luarocks-tree.html

I don't know much about npm, so the LuaRocks way of doing things may be
different, but the general idea seems to be possible.

P
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