On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > Windows support suffers from little testing compared to Unix.
Yes, because we keep deserting the platform for greener pastures ;) >> - Reconsider removing support for "rockspec" installation, instead use >> "rock" only packages, the former causes fragmentation and download problems. > > Using bare rockspecs is popular among developers (myself included). It is a handy format for publishing modules hosted elsewhere. Naturally there are cans of worms, (e.g. download difficulties with github tag tarballs) but the life-cycle of a rockspec is that it should end up living in the common repo, where it will be converted into a rock. As for makefiles, well they're inherently crappy. It would be useful if conscientious packagers could provide MinGW makefiles as well, rather than the current assumption that if this is Windows then there must be an nmake file. (LR does know the build environment at this point). The builtin build mode is pretty flexible and covers most cases adequately. steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
