On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 4:49 AM, A.S. Bradbury <[email protected]> wrote: > On 14 October 2010 06:12, <[email protected]> wrote: >> There might be some hope of persuading dpgk, rpm and windows >> package-maintainers to invoke luarocks register posix 5.1.4 >> in their post-install scripts ? >> They a finite in number, and they are Luafolk... > > Does anyone know how Linux distros manage this for similar systems in > other languages. e.g. rubygems or Perl's CPAN?
Most of them redo the work. They create "native" packages for their distro for each module. Sometimes they do it in a somewhat automated version with scripts that repack the language-managed package. In any case, when using the distro-installed package, the user is not supposed to manage it with the language-specific manager anymore. For something completely different, GoboLinux (who else? :) ) is trying to integrate the various language-specific module managers with the distribution's package manager, to avoid redoing that work and to allow the language-specific managers to be, if not "native citizens", at least "resident aliens" in the system: "An overview of /System/Aliens" http://mwh.geek.nz/2009/07/23/an-overview-of-systemaliens/ Blog post on the talk at Linux.conf.au 2010: http://mwh.geek.nz/2010/01/18/first-talk-over-at-linux-conf-au/ -- Hisham _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
