On 29 August 2013 17:11, Peter M <lua4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello! > > I ran into a strange bug after installing LR 2.1.0: it seems that it > doesn't understand dependencies on rocks which names start with a > digit(there is only one such rock - 30log). > > Any rockspec with 30log dependency fails with this error: > >> Error: Parse error processing dependency '30log >= 0.5': failed to extract >> dependency name from '30log >= 0.5' > > It may be reproduced using a rockspec for one of my not-released-yet projects: > > http://raw.github.com/lua4web/lunitz/master/rockspecs/lunitz-0.1-1.rockspec > > Just download it and run luarocks install... > > I think that the reason is in luarocks.deps.parse_dep function. It > needs rocks' names to start with a letter: > >> local name, rest = dep:match("^%s*([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9%.%-%_]*)%s*(.*)")
It's a quite arbitrary restriction, given that modules can indeed start with numbers. The rockspec format document doesn't specify this, so I'm considering this a bug and lifting the restriction. Keeping "%.%-%_" as invalid first character shouldn't cause problems though. Thanks for the report! -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
