Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Jay Carlson once stated:
> On Feb 1, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> 
> > It was thus said that the Great Jay Carlson once stated:
> >> Why aren't you using Git references?
> > 
> >  Oh, so you mean something like
> > 
> > 	syslog = require "3a40a635633cb7a2627850811d8f047430b071fa" -- ??
> > 	syslog = require "3a40a635633cb7a2627850811d8f047430b071fa.syslog" -- ??
> > 	syslog = require "3a40a63.syslog" -- ??
> 
> The second makes the most sense I think, and you can sugar it as much as
> you want.
> 
> refs = require("my-project-gitrefs")
> syslog = refs.syslog
> 
> or maybe refs.syslog() if the former is too magic for you.
> 
> You do still have to resolve 3a40a635633cb7a2627850811d8f047430b071fa into
> a tree you can read, but that's not so bad; you can do it in any clone.
> 
> If you want to follow a tag, you've designated the owners of some Git
> repository as your namespace resolver. The Git repository has to live
> somewhere you can reach, so now you have a URL, even if it's
> file:///home/nop/my-repository (if you're doing this all offline).
> 
> Additional fun can be had with validating GPG signatures on tags.

  You'll still have issue with modules written in C.  Good luck with that
[1].

  -spc

[1]	Yes, you could use org.conman.cc [2] but dispite having written the
	module, I don't even use it! [3]

[2]	https://github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/blob/master/lua/cc.lua

[3]	I don't recommend using it.  It uses a rather quirky C compiler.  I
	haven't even checked to see if it runs with the latest version of
	TCC, so your milage may vary.