May 16 2016 5:42 PM, "Philipp Janda" <siffie...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Am 16.05.2016 um 16:17 schröbte Hisham:
>
>> The alternative is just to let the LuaRocks server pick one (highest
>> downloaded, e.g.).
> 
> I'm not a fan of the download counts. At the moment, a large number of
> downloads only means that another active project with continuous
> integration installs the rock during automated testing. Downloads by
> humans are just noise compared to that. Also we'd create a feedback
> loop, and it would be difficult to get rid of an unmaintained module.

Agreed. For instance one of my modules, fakeredis, has a high downloads
count, but that's only because it is a dependency of telegram-bot.

> I'm still eagerly waiting for the Lua Toolbox to be merged with the
> LuaRocks.org website.

Work is in progress by Etiene, so hopefully that will be soon :)

-- 
Pierre Chapuis

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