On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Tom N Harris <tellia...@whoopdedo.org> wrote: > Lake isn't a defined backends. But it could be if LR had build-time > dependencies. This is on the roadmap, isn't it?
It should not be difficult - in fact such a backend could be delivered as a rock! Then one has a reasonably rich Lua scripting environment to do system discovery; (Lake grabs plugins using require() so they can in turn become rocks) Can always detect version from spawing cmd.exe suitably. > ps. I still say it would be easier to build one universal module that detects > the available functions at runtime using GetProcAddress. See > http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/03/13/10282397.aspx Windows is the poor cousin when it comes to discoverability. Even a little module that just exposed that and LoadLibrary would be so useful for this task. I was also experimenting with a Lake plugin that did CMake-style discovery - experimental compilation and then caching the results. Only about 200 lines, so shows promise [2] [1] Lake is a relatively small dependency, but it would be cool to be able to specify 'build_dependencies', 'test_dependencies' etc. [2] unlike CMake, I have a proper language at my disposal ;) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing Performance Central, a new site from SourceForge and AppDynamics. Performance Central is your source for news, insights, analysis and resources for efficient Application Performance Management. Visit us today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897511&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
