On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Jerome Vuarand
<[email protected]> wrote:
> First, how is namespace conflict handled by LuaRocks?

In the old days, there was no problem; any package would specify
exactly what it needed, and it would get that what it needed when it
said 'require', all done with the magic of 'luarocks.require'.  And it
still works like that with explicit luarocks.require, certainly on the
local tree.  The system was designed around that whole concept, and
only later (due to peer pressure) that modules got copied to the
regular Lua module paths.

> module. But then I realized that there are already two rocks which use
> it, lposix and luaposix.

It gets difficult to explain to people why there are N modules with
the same name, where N > 1.

What about something like posix-extra?

> be unable to remove. So my question is, why isn't LuaRocks using its
> own copy of whatever Lua modules it needs

I suppose because the repo gatekeepers would not allow something in
that would break the system?

steve d.

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