Re: ActiveState seeking Lua community feedback

[Russell Haley <russ.haley@...>]

Luarocks doesn't seem to be mentioned in the link you provided Jeff?‎ Or I couldn't find it?

Russ

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  Original Message  
From: Jeff Rouse
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2016 1:17 PM
To: Lua mailing list
Reply To: Lua mailing list
Subject: Re: ActiveState seeking Lua community feedback

On 2016-11-04 10:33 AM, Hisham wrote:
> On 1 November 2016 at 17:07, Jeff Rouse <jeffr@activestate.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> At ActiveState we feel Lua has a bright future in a variety of application
>> areas (IoT, embedded scripting, and many others), and we are looking for
>> ideas on how to support the community, increase adoption and help
>> enterprises utilize the language more effectively. I’m proud to say that in
>> 2017, we will be providing a community- and enterprise-ready Lua
>> distribution on a variety of platforms, shaped in part by the feedback we
>> receive from the community.
> Hi Jeff!
>
> As the lead developer of LuaRocks, I'm very happy to see that
> ActiveState is reaching out for community feedback.
>
> The Lua ecosystem is unfortunately quite fragmented, so I think it's
> important that the various efforts towards improving the Lua platform
> join forces. I would love to see an ActiveState distribution of Lua
> shipping LuaRocks out-of-the-box and I'm really happy to see that
> other users already chimed in with this same desire.
>
> One of the design goals of LuaRocks is to be flexible enough so it
> adapts itself for various scenarios (that's why it is light on
> dependencies and heavily configurable — I once successfully set up
> LuaRocks to do cross-compiling to an embedded Linux system just by
> editing its config file, for example, without having any native
> cross-compiling support built into the tool).
>
> If you guys have any issues or comments with regard to LuaRocks
> integration, make sure to drop by at our issues page on Github or the
> luarocks-developers mailing list!
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Hisham
Hi Hisham!

My apologies for the delay in replying, I really wanted to get 
individual replies out to everyone who repsonded on this list, but time 
realities are forcing me to be more practical. :) I appreciate all the 
work that you and other contributors here do in providing the LuaRocks 
package manager. I agree that working against fragmentation in the 
language is key. I may reach out at a later point with some comments and 
thoughts in regards to our distro and LuaRocks.

BTW, we recently did a Lua blog post with a shout out to LuaRocks: 
http://bit.ly/2g2GfG0

Cheers,

-JR