Hi, As a follow-up to my message from March, I'm very happy to announce we just reached 300 entries in the LuaRocks repository (that's 300 different things for which you can run 'luarocks install thing'). Counting multiple versions of projects in the rocks/ and rocks-scm/ repos, that totals 980 rockspecs so far. This is another little milestone showing that the community keeps growing and contributing.
Back in April, I wrote an informal document on the history of LuaRocks up to that point: http://luarocks.org/doc/history.pdf I didn't release that then because I was sidetracked into writing an academic paper on LuaRocks, which was now accepted at SBLP 2013 and is due to be published in a future edition of Lecture Notes in Computer Science. This will hopefully be a small contribution to the scarce academic literature on package management. As a bonus, here's the updated graph as of today: http://luarocks.org/doc/luarocks_evolution_300_2013-08-15.png Just as it happened with the 250th module, it is nicely symbolic that the 300th project is also a pure-Lua project that makes good use of the LuaRocks modules ecosystem. Check out the dependency tree for the 300th module, lua-jet: lua-jet lua-cjson lua-websockets luabitop copas coxpcall luasocket lua-ev lpack It's great to see that our original goal of having a platform that fosters cooperation and sharing of Lua modules has become a reality, and is more so each day. Kudos to everyone involved! -- Hisham http://luarocks.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers