On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote:
> Pull requests will be most welcome since I won't have lots of time to
> work on it myself (my doctorate's clock is ticking; it's one of the
> reasons why I'm stepping down from curating the repo). So now is the
> time for you to help shaping LuaRocks the way you want it to go
> featurewise! Build-only dependencies? C++/C99 support for the builtin
> type? Globbing notation for listing modules? Integration with testing
> tools? I'll try to coordinate things and keep the design consistent,
> especially with regard to the rockspec format, which should freeze
> again after 3.0.
>
> I'd be super happy to have LuaRocks 3.0 ready by the time of the next
> Lua Workshop. Can we make it?
>
Hisham,
This is really and great news! I have a thought that perhaps belongs in its
own thread, but it's related to the rockspec.
Has there been a discussion about supporting a 0-conf specification for
modules? I'm sure this isn't a new thought, but just to be clear:
A spec might be defined such that if someone laid out their directory tree
in a specific way, luarocks could generate the rockspec by inspecting the
layout.
Example:
```
$(RockName) --root directory is project name. Ex: penlight
-doc --documentation is in here
-lua --lua source root
--$(RequireName) --dir of lua scripts. Also, name of module used to
require module. Ex: pl
-src
--C sources, (*.c, *.h, etc)
README(.md?) --readme file. Takes first heading and uses it for short
description.First paragraph for the long description.
CHANGELOG --Version is parsed from here.
```
Would this be a Good Thing or a Bad Thing?
-Andrew
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