On 16 April 2013 06:11, Thijs Schreijer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you use "/LV 5.2" then 5.2 must be preinstalled. If bundling 5.2 also, 
> then the whole runtime discussion starts over again.
>
> Imo there is only one way to resolve that; let LuaRocks include its own copy 
> of Lua, so it is fully self containing (the lua executables reside somewhere 
> in the LuaRocks\2.0\ filepath, and when LuaRocks is run, it uses those).
>
> Modify installer;
> 1) Lua must be pre-installed (either 5.1 or 5.2) otherwise you get an error
> 2) Through an optional switch the installer copies the bundled Lua 
> executables into a system wide Lua installation. But this should then be an 
> explicit switch.
>
> That would resolve the entire runtime discussion.

I agree. But should we delay 2.0.13 because of that? I think what we
have now is already an improvement.

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced
analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building
apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use
our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account!
http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter
_______________________________________________
Luarocks-developers mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers

Reply via email to