On 04/05/2011 01:00 PM, Tim Niemueller wrote: > On 31.03.2011 11:01, Michel Alexandre Salim wrote: >> On 03/30/2011 11:48 AM, Tim Niemueller wrote: >>> Hi fellow Fedorans. >>> >>> I'd like to push a minor update of Lua, which incorporates a small >>> bugfix patch, and some cosmetic fixes to the builds script. First >>> testing by a proven tester has been done successfully, but I need more >>> testing to be able to push it, please have a look, try it and comment: >>> ) >> >From my reading of the update policy, actually only a normal karma is >> needed (+1 from proventester, +2 total). But I've tested the package >> now, all seems in order. >> >> Incidentally, any interest in getting Lua's Rocks deployment system >> integrated into Fedora? Been meaning to get this done for a while, >> really needs to get it off the ground. Ideally it should be like Python >> eggs and Ruby gems -- we need our Lua modules to ship .rocks files so >> that these modules don't get a duplicate installation in the user's home >> directory. >> >> I'll whip up a Feature page (probably we'll announce it for F-16) if >> there's an interest. > > I never liked these specific deployment systems and rather just built > RPMs in the first place, but if someone is willing to do and *maintain* > it: go for it! > I agree that it's not ideal; however, given that we have a small set of Lua packages, it probably makes sense to focus on integrating well with the wide range of Lua "rocks" out there. I'll of course maintain it -- the nice thing is that we can gradually convert our Lua packages (I don't think there's a way to automate creation of rock descriptors, the way there is for Python eggswith distutils). Best regards, -- Michel Alexandre Salim GPG key ID: 78884778 () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
