Re: [Luarocks-developers] Luarocks doesn't check that build.modules exists before it tries to use it

2015-02-25 Thread Hisham
On 25 February 2015 at 21:12, Geoff Leyland wrote: >> On 26/02/2015, at 9:42 am, Hisham wrote: >> >> Thank you for the bug report! I filed it in the tracker. > > Whoops! Sorry, I should have done that myself. No, it was my fault for giving outdated instructions; just committed this: https://gi

Re: [Luarocks-developers] Luarocks doesn't check that build.modules exists before it tries to use it

2015-02-25 Thread Geoff Leyland
> On 26/02/2015, at 9:42 am, Hisham wrote: > > Thank you for the bug report! I filed it in the tracker. Whoops! Sorry, I should have done that myself. -- Dive into the World of Parallel Programming The Go Parallel Webs

Re: [Luarocks-developers] new LuaRocks.org + docs question

2015-02-25 Thread Hisham
On 24 February 2015 at 08:12, Peter Billam wrote: > Greetings again. Hisham wrote: >> but this is a completely different thing: you're referring to >> the repository search, I was referring about the documentation >> material on LuaRocks itself. > > True; I saw the word "documentation" just when

Re: [Luarocks-developers] Luarocks doesn't check that build.modules exists before it tries to use it

2015-02-25 Thread Hisham
On 25 February 2015 at 15:05, Geoff Leyland wrote: > It checks everything else so carefully, :-) > but build = { type = “builtin” } causes a crash. Indeed. Each build method should have its own type checker and launch it by itself. Thank you for the bug report! I filed it in the tracker. -- Hi

[Luarocks-developers] Luarocks doesn't check that build.modules exists before it tries to use it

2015-02-25 Thread Geoff Leyland
It checks everything else so carefully, but build = { type = “builtin” } causes a crash. Error: LuaRocks scm bug (please report at luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net). /usr/local/share/lua/luarocks/build/builtin.lua:200: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil) stack tracebac

Re: [Luarocks-developers] new LuaRocks.org + docs question

2015-02-25 Thread Peter Billam
Greetings again. Hisham wrote: > but this is a completely different thing: you're referring to > the repository search, I was referring about the documentation > material on LuaRocks itself. True; I saw the word "documentation" just when I happened to have been through the socket experience myse