On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 1:47 AM, XIAO Qi <xiaqq...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Somewhat a newcomer to the Lua community, I am doing a Summer of Code
> project on LuaRocks, the luarocks addon system. Basically, the system
> will allow enable addons that can plug into the building process of
> rocks and do basically arbitrary things. See the SoC ideas page [1] or
> Hisham's talk [2] for more.
>
> However, to make the life of addon developers easier as well as to
> prevent the addons from destroying the world, we first have to define
> an API for the addons to interact with luarocks internals. The API
> would, of course, depend on what kind of addons we have in vision.
> Hence I would like to have your suggestions on two questions:
>
> 1) As a rock developer, what kind of addons would you like to have?
>
> 2) As a prospective addon developer, which parts of LuaRocks should be
> available to plug into?
>
> As an example, say as a rock developer, I wish to have addons that do
> testing after building the rock. And in turn, as a prospective
> developer for the testing addon, I would like to have the list of
> modules available to the addon (in the case of the "builtin" backend),
> and would like to report test failures and possibly prevent the rock
> from installing.
>
IMO, this would be a very good thing to have in luarocks.
>
> 1. http://www.lua.inf.puc-rio.br/gsoc/ideas2015.html#luarocks
> 2. http://luaconf.ru/#Muhammad
>
> --
> Best regards,
> 肖骐 XIAO Qi
>
>
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