On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Yuri Takhteyev <y...@sims.berkeley.edu> wrote: >> No, the servers to be used are dependent on the user's configuration, >> not on the rockspec. > > Mauricio's question, though, raises an interesting issue of how > different repositories might be integrated, for more distributed > system. Allowing rocks to refer to dependencies in other repositories > would have some interesting effects, good and bad. Worth discussing > perhaps?
At the very least it's an interesting academic exercise (and I don't mean that in a derogative way!). I think you summed it up quite well with "interesting effects, good and bad". Right now I'm working on a similar problem on the "other end"; handling multiple local trees. It's a matter of figuring out what should be the semantics. In one sense, injecting into the rockspecs themselves the idea of multiple repositories would have an effect slightly analogous to git-submodule as one project would be "linked" to another (again, with pros and cons). OTOH, one problem with explicit URLs like this is mirroring. But before we dive into architectural astronomy, how about we sidestep this issue by adding the rocks from http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/rocks/galaxy/ to the main LuaRocks repository? :) It should be possible to specify their dependencies so they point properly at each other, if they don't already. -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
