On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, anders conbere <[email protected]> wrote: >> I setup luarocks against lua 5.2 today and it seems to magically be >> working (good job!). However many of the rocks with c extensions seem >> incompatible. I'm relatively new to this, so I'm sure I'm missing a >> lot. But I figured I would ask about what i'm seeing. >> >> Is this just a case of rocks that only work with 5.1 and below? > > Yes, that was the case.
What's the best course of action as a user when this happens? Should I email this list with the errors? I presume that the simple solution is getting these projects to update their dependencies to list themselves as being lua <= 5.1? > >> I don't see a way for rocks to specify what interpreter / version they >> are designed to run on... is this something that is needed? > > Rockspec files have a "dependencies" table in which they can specify a > Lua version as a dependency. Unfortunately not all rockspecs were > checked for Lua 5.2 compatibility and many optimistically assume "lua >>= 5.1". I just uploaded an updated revision for the luafilesystem > rockspec which should provide a better error message. DURP > > http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks/luafilesystem-1.5.0-3.rockspec > > Thank you for the feedback! > > -- Hisham > http://hisham.hm/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
