Since you bring the subject, I was wondering if there was an interest in having either :
1. A luarocks server aggregator with a web GUI Would be a central place that would connect to other servers in order to fetch their manifest file and add them to a local database in order to provide a way for users to find Lua modules and libs. It could also maybe serve the purpose of being a central place where to fetch luarocks files. 2. A central Rockspec repository with a web GUI This would be a place where developers would upload their rock files on every new release and provide some meta information like tags and categories. Users could then go there and search for Lua modules and libs. By adding this repository manifest to their luarocks configuration, users could also search and install from the command-line. Of course, this would probably have to be moderated manually and automatically where possible. I think 2 would be more useful at the moment but moderation will need a team of monkeys. The current situation where developers send their rockspec on this list could maybe be improved. Hisham might get kidnapped by aliens from outer space anytime. -- Bertrand Mansion Mamasam On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Fabio Mascarenhas <[email protected]> wrote: > It is back up, probably a hiccup at rizie.com. I was not expecting the > same level of availability from a $4 VPS as I was getting from a $25 > one. :-) > > I think Alexander suggested moving the repositories to github, then we > could upload new packages with git push, and requests for uploading > could be pull requests. I just tried to use a github repository as a > remote repository as an experiment, but github's insistence on https > for everything foiled me. We would need to add https support to fs/lua > using LuaSec. > > -- > Fabio Mascarenhas > > > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:20 AM, steve donovan <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Bertrand Mansion <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Just to let you know that it looks like the luarocks.org website is >>> down, at least for me... >> >> And for me, so Africa isn't immune either ;) >> >> Time to think again about setting up a fallback server? There's only >> about 40 megs in the repo...sounds like a job for rsync. >> >> steve d. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Luarocks-developers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers >> > > _______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers > _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
