On 28 July 2013 04:34, steve donovan <steve.j.dono...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:42 PM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote: >> >> I'm not sure if this is possible with the builtin type from existing >> LR versions. But if you *had* to make it work, one extreme workaround >> would be to: >> 1) fork luarocks.build.builtin and add C++ support >> 2) call this new module luarocks.build.cpp and publish a rock called >> luarocks-build-cpp > > > This solution doesn't feel very extreme - it's a good use of the modular > design of LR. And it would be a small rock.
Actually, it would probably be a good idea to eventually move all build backends into rocks, so that new features could be added to them easily. Ironically, "builtin" would be no longer built-in... but maybe at least one build backend should remain built-in for bootstrapping purposes... -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
