On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Cosmin Apreutesei
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a related vaporware myself on the subject[1]. I started putting
> together the tools to start developing the website (orbit, fbclient).

I agree with Cosmin and Norman that this is an important area for
dedicated initiatives.

I still see rockspec generation as a local activity, so my thinking
was to use an Orbit-like mini-framework (Orbiter) to generate a web
interface a la Webrocks.

But testing that rockspec beyond the local environment, that requires the web.

Perhaps the trickiest part of portable rockspec generation is creating
conditional dependencies, etc.  It would be useful to have a little
tool that expands these conditionals, given a platform, so you can see
what the rockspec looks like on that platform. It's handled by
LuaRocks in a very macro-expansion kind of way, so this should be an
easy one.

Automated sandbox testing is a good goal but keeping a server alive
with several virtual machines requires real resources - and we know
that Apple doesn't like people virtualizing their OS anyway.

steve d.

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