Hi all, It would be convenient to install multiple packages with one install invocation. It helps when there are a lot of latencies involved in grabbing the manifest etc - the same reason why apt-get and its friends support this - it means that a person can go get a cup of their preferred beverage while the system does its thing.
I would like to canvas opinions before I try to implement this. One thing which is _very_ important, is roll-back policy. If a package, or one of its dependencies fails, then the current state of the system must be very clear. So install should indicate precisely what it managed to install, and what failed. Another feature that could be very useful is an error log file which is generated by install. Otherwise people have to capture a lot of output from their terminals which is awkward; they can then easily submit the contents of the error log when reporting a problem. Of course, perhaps a more LuaRocks-y solution is to have meta-packages which pull in a whole bunch of common packages as dependencies. This could be used to deliver mini Lua distributions efficiently. steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
