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.

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