Well, that's what I felt after reading this slashdot article: http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/12/20/0459240/RubyGems-Module-Count-Soon-To-Surpass-CPANs
They;re talking about 18,000 gems.... The moral for LuaRocks is that quality is more important than quantity. I think the Perl people have thought about how to make quality easier (the Kwalitee metric) and the Ruby people are into 'everything goes'.[1] I'm all for reducing the barrier to entry, making it as easy as possible for people to make and submit rockspecs (Both Cosmin and I have been thinking of a web GUI version of rockspecifier) but man, we definitely need namespace rules! And the simplest rule is: that top-level name is already in use. The lposix/luaposix issue has been resolved, at least steve d. [1] they certainly do things with monkey-patching which lua-l would not approve of, although I know the temptation..... _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
