Re: Portable binary distribution of Lua 5.3.3 (32bit on Windows 10) with some batteries

["Pavel Drotar" <gmc1@...>]

I'm pretty shocked with such type of reaction. May be you are proficient in C (luautf8 is cool module) or in 20 other languages and people here loves you and you love Hisham, but from human point of view you are simply stupid.

> Hi dear Hisham,
> 
> I love Lua language, and now my hobby is writing Lua C module for fun.
> But I found luarocks is far more difficult to maintain all my modules.
> 
> I have several modules, but maintain them are very difficult. After
> make changes, I had to:
>   - test on many platform
>   - assign a new version (and a new version to rockspec itself)
>   - update my rockspecs
>   - commit it to github
>   - make a release
>   - write release note
>   - make a source rock
>   - login in luarocks.org, and upload this rock (I still can not find
> out how to use upload command of luarocks)
> 
> I know, I know, npm is a company, and luarocks is freeware, no one pay
> for you for it. I know mostly is I don't know how to use luarocks,
> it's not luarocks' fault. But it really makes me unhappy! I even
> doesn't have once success when type "luarocks install luarocks". I use
> my own layout of Lua (build it myself to support both MinGW and MSVC),
> so everytime I upgrade luarocks (yes, by hand), I will carefully
> manually edit config.lua to make luarocks happy. I just hope when I
> want to make some changes to my module, I only need commit to github,
> and give it a tag, and users can happily use luarocks update
> <rockname> to get lastest result. I hope I (and users) could get
> binary modules directly, static linked with libcmt.lib, optimized well
> and lies comfortably in my own Lua installations, no need fight with
> the terrible build environment on Windows. I hope everything could
> easy as npm or cpan or pacman or even brew. But currently luarocks
> really makes me feel bad.
> 
> But I still love luarocks, it's the only package manager of Lua
> language. Lua is so perfect, but have not huge modules like Python. I
> hope someday I could use Lua to make everything I make in Python
> before. Because write Lua is SO FREEDOM! I only hope it could be
> better. it may have a cache system, needn't download rocks times and
> times when build failure (and I manually use "download" command to
> solve it). it may split build system and other misc things into
> standalone rocks, to build a rocks, just a little script(just like
> brew) requiring some standard rocks module, it will done
> automatically. it may support github or bitbucket or whatever directly
> and needn't require a "url" entry in rockspecs file. it may
> download(and upload) binary modules by default, and author could
> easily upload them own. it support local deps repo and global repo as
> well (just like package.json and node_modules directory things of
> npm). I hope use luarocks makes me happy, makes life easy, and makes
> more and more people start to use Lua to solve daily task.
> 
> Still thanks for write this great software for Lua. I know it becoming
> better and better now. I just hope it could be the best.
> 
> Sorry for my noise.
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Xavier Wang.