On 21 March 2014 16:30, Peter Colberg <pe...@colberg.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 02:11:53PM -0300, Hisham wrote: >> On 20 March 2014 11:26, Peter Colberg <pe...@colberg.org> wrote: >> > Before I prepare rockspecs that build autonomously, could you revisit >> > the last post in the thread “HDF5 for Lua rockspec”, which asks for >> > adding architecture-dependent paths to LUA_PATH? >> >> I see your use case, it's one I didn't cover originally and now the >> assumption of .lua files in $(LIBDIR) and binaries in $(LUADIR) shows >> in several places (eg the builtin build mode)... It's a bit hard to >> give this a proper fix right now. > > Ok, thanks for your feedback! > > I decided to include pre-compiled FFI C bindings in the git repository > that are manually tweaked for architecture independence. That way the > Lua plugin for GCC is no longer required for installation.
Nice! I'm sure users will appreciate that! > One last question: Do you have pandoc [1] on your build machine? > > My modules use pandoc to build HTML from text files in Pandoc's > Markdown format; it would be nice to ship the built HTML files > in the binary rocks. > > [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html I don't, and last time I tried to install it I went down a Haskell rabbithole... That started here: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html and at one point got me here: https://twitter.com/hisham_hm/status/438776597064454144 Before I noticed, I was off to lunch and left my machine building the Platform, which was at that point compiling Haskell OpenGL bindings(!). (Not to mention I _had_ ghc in my box! I shouldn't have to install a gazillion packages just to convert Markdown to HTML. Writing a shellscript or converting the files by hand would have been less trouble than getting Pandoc to work :( ) The Linux world lately plays to the tune of "you better run a major distro, or we'll make your life hell". Sorry about the rant... it was just a longwinded way to say: no, I don't have Pandoc and I think it would be really really nice if you just committed the generated html files to the doc/ repository, to the benefit of all your users who don't have pandoc (remember some people won't get to your code through LuaRocks, they might land straight to the github page) -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
