On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > These days Norman Clarke wrote on Twitter "At what point should you > stop adding features to software? Infinite growth isn't sustainable.", > to which I replied "I guess after a point you only keep adding > features if you shift away from the project's original goal."
Which is (implicitly) part of the debate about Lua's future itself. LR is certainly feeling mature, and it does its job. > I don't want to turn LuaRocks into a make/CMake/etc. competitor, but > I'd like to make the life of those using type="builtin" to be as easy > as possible so you don't have to use a make-type tool if you're just > shipping a couple of files. Agreed. And there are many packages which could be packaged using 'builtin' which currently use make, which tends to be non-portable and inflexible. So a useful exercise would be to look at packages which currently use make and see what features would be needed to make 'builtin' work for a larger set of packages. People tend to start with a makefile, of course, but that tends to work only for their platform. steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
