Re: Dependency graph of top 350 rocks in luarocks.org

[Adrián Pérez de Castro <aperez@...>]

Quoting Alban Linard (2016-07-29 09:17:22)
> It seems strange that projects depend on testing tools, such as busted, as this dependency is usually used __only__ for development.
> 
> I always end up writing two rockspecs: one to install development environment (busted, cluacov, luacheck, …) and a real one for the non-development dependencies, that is uploaded to luarocks.org.
> 
> Is there a way to specify in one rockspec the distinction between dev dependencies and others ? Is there a better solution ? Good practices ?

Some days ago I had the same issue and wondered whether there is some way of
having “development dependencies” in a rockspec, but after reading through the
LuaRocks documentation the answer seems to be “no”. For now I have settled on
not adding the testing/development dependencies to my rockspecs, and trust
that the developers (that is: myself) will figure out how to install the
development dependencies :-)

> > Le 28 juil. 2016 à 23:11, Hisham <h@hisham.hm> a écrit :
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I saw this on Twitter, and the author gave me the green-light to share
> > it, so I thought some of you would enjoy it:
> > 
> > By @syaffers: « Dependency graph for top 350 most dl'ed rocks. Data
> > crawled from #luarocks (sry!) #lua http://bit.ly/29wNtix »
> > 
> > Tweet:
> > https://twitter.com/syaffers/status/752078854370439168
> > 
> > Direct link to the image:
> > https://s3.amazonaws.com/syaffers-stuff/h350.svg

Nevertheless, the graph is quite cool!

--
 ☛ Adrián

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