On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:07 AM, A.S. Bradbury <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 October 2010 21:12, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: >> The best approach would be to have the standard "configure-make-make >> install" procedure to install LuaRocks and register it in the manifest >> as a rock, so that later upgrades could be done using luarocks itself >> (with a possible config flag to block this feature: this would prevent >> it from breaking the distro database when installed via the distro >> package manager). > > I think this would be a great move forwards. I think at the same time > as providing this new upgrade feature, it would be worth either > improving the configure script to detect more common cases (e.g. > includes at /usr/include/lua5.1 on Debian/Ubuntu) or providing more > documentaion for common distros. The reason for this is that for many > users, manual installation may become preferred to using the > distribution-provided luarocks package.
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