(moving to luarocks list) On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:59 AM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote: > * there are no (AFAIK) modules that are LuaJIT-only in the main rocks > server. Nothing stops one from making an alternative rocks server with > LuaJIT-only rocks. If there is demand I could host that at > luarocks.org too, but I don't recall receiving any rockspecs for > ffi-based rocks, even though they were never disencouraged. > * there is a magic dependency "lua" you can use in your rocks to > specify 5.1 and/or 5.2, but there is no "luajit" magic dep (this could > be added), nor a way to say "lua ~> 5.2 or luajit ~> 2" (this can't be > added right now because it's new syntax and would break rockspec > compatibility). > * even though LuaJIT presents itself as Lua 5.1, it has as you said > partial 5.2 compatibility, so there are probably rocks that require > "lua ~> 5.2" and would work on LuaJIT, but LR doesn't know about that > (and figuring out which rocks are LuaJIT-compatible is not reliably > automatable). > > I'd be happy to make any necessary adaptations to make LR play well > with LuaJIT, if there's interest, but I haven't heard much about > LuaJIT in the LuaRocks mailing list.
Its a bit chicken-egg, havent submitted anything as at least having a a luajit magic dep is necessary first. I wouldnt worry about the 5.2 nuances at present. Longer term, there is the issue about how to deal with packages that might have a different dependency set if under LuaJIT or Lua, eg can use libffi for compatibility, or uses another dependency. This can be ignored as worst case is you build/install the extra dependency but dont use it at runtime. Justin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ October Webinars: Code for Performance Free Intel webinars can help you accelerate application performance. Explore tips for MPI, OpenMP, advanced profiling, and more. Get the most from the latest Intel processors and coprocessors. See abstracts and register > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=60133471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
