Thanks Hisham! I'll make an announcement to the lua-l@ list. Cheers, -Brian
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 21:57, Brian Maher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Thanks for the tip Alexander, I went ahead and posted a rockspec with >>> a git:// URL here: >> >>> Of course, the only downfall is that anyone behind a firewall will >>> have trouble fetching it :-/. >> >> Note that, as I understand it, rocks are re-packed when added to the >> repository, and the urls in rockspecs are fixed accordingly. > > The URLs in rockspecs are not edited. What I do is to run "luarocks > pack" on the rockspec, which generates a .src.rock file, which means > the source code is packed along with the rockspec and stored in the > LuaRocks repository. > >> So, it is important that Hisham is able to download the files. After >> that all should be good. > > Yes, the net effect is that even if the source is unreachable after > that, users can still get the source code. Ideally, of course, URLs in > published rockspecs should remain valid. :) > > -- Hisham > > _______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers > -- Brian Maher >> Glory to God << _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
