Re: [ANN] LuaRocks 3.0.4

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

Op Wo., 31 Okt. 2018 om 09:01 het Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> geskryf:
>
> It was thus said that the Great Dirk Laurie once stated:
> > Op Wo., 31 Okt. 2018 om 01:57 het Hisham <h@hisham.hm> geskryf:
> >
> > > This is a quick announcement that version 3.0.4 of LuaRocks, the Lua
> > > package manager, has been tagged and uploaded to the usual locations.
> > > You can find all links at https://luarocks.org — source packages for
> > > all supported platforms and binaries for Windows and Linux x86-64 are
> > > available.
> >
> > This is not criticism, it's just a comment from a Lua user, one that
> > has never lamented Lua's lack of a Python-like ecosystem.
> >
> > What I miss most about version 3 is a seamless transition from version
> > 2.2. I understand that 'luarocks install luarocks' cannot work,
> > building from source has so far also eluded me, but a binary for Linux
> > x86-64 might be painless, I hoped.
>
>   I had the same issue last month; Hisham and I went back and forth a few
> times on the LuaRocks Developers mailing list.  Here's the thread:
>
>         https://sourceforge.net/p/luarocks/mailman/message/36416169/
>
>   -spc (It was not a painless upgrade for me either ... )

Well, I'm going with the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" approach. It
is indeed ironic that the very package that is supposed to make Lua
packages easy to install and maintain, itself isn't.