On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 4:55 AM, steve donovan <[email protected]> wrote: > Sometimes the structure of the archive is not LuaRocks-friendly, > especially if one is packaging someone else's tarball. The Github > directory structure is an example, README.md (or .txt) needs to be at > the top-level. > > So I was wondering if this feature would be sufficiently useful for inclusion: > > build.copy_files = { doc = 'README.md', test = 'tests/test.lua' } > > where the keys are the intended target directories, which would not be > part of the archive. It could be used as well as copy_directories in > its own sense, it's not exclusive. > > Useful also for packaging modules from prolific authors like lhf who > just give you a readme and a test file - particularly so if there's no > helpful website. > > I can prototype this feature if there is sufficient interest.
Sounds like 'copy_directories' and 'copy_files' could be generalized into a single 'copy' entry -- it may be a good idea for the next version of the rockspec format. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
