On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 3:20 AM, David Manura <[email protected]> wrote: > We may want an author field also for searching modules.
This sounds like a useful feature, although off-hand I don't know if the information is in the main manifest - otherwise that would need to change. (LR repos are dumb stores.) > CastOfCharacters [2] partly serves as an ad-hoc author-module index > already. Yes, when thinking about LF2 and LuaSnippets I saw that it could be a useful and easily-parsed resource. > The rockspec design depends first on what rockspecs are intended to be > / not be and what we are trying to achieve with them. So, some > statement of that may be good starting point. A good point - as far as possible, try not to break existing rockspecs, and use rockspec_version to indicate ones that need the new features. And in that revision, make some of the optional fields compulsory? steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
