> -----Original Message----- > From: steve donovan [mailto:steve.j.dono...@gmail.com] > Sent: zondag 14 april 2013 16:14 > To: luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Luarocks-developers] changes for Lua 5.1 and 5.2 coexistence > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Thijs Schreijer > <th...@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote: > > How would I create a windows distribution? > > The place I'd start would be the 'batteries' zip that Peter D generates > (look under Downloads in http://luadist.org/) > > It includes a luarocks installation out of the box, but the problem is > that it works completely independently. Although luasocket etc is present, > it will insist on downloading and installing (probably failing in this > case) into its own tree. So what's required is a fake LR manifest created > from the existing list of packages in this distro, and then LR can safely > deploy packages into the main package path. This is best of both worlds; > starting from a defined set of built binaries and allowing LR to fetch new > or exotic libraries which just depend on those binaries. >
Hmmm... are we on the same page here? What I'm trying to accomplish is making a LuaRocks windows install package (as downloadable from the LuaRocks site) from the LuaRocks git repo. So I can test the package before Hisham generates the RC. Thijs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
