Re: Lua for Windows: Why not use LuaRocks instead?
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- Subject: Re: Lua for Windows: Why not use LuaRocks instead?
- From: Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@...>
- Date: 2008年9月13日 12:12:56 +0300
Luís Eduardo Jason Santos wrote:
I can't agree with that.
Luarocks has an use case that allows one to build binary modules that
are readily available without compilation.
You can build-in (almost) everything you need into
your own DLL.
So, I believe having a bunch of binary rocks that can install easily
on windows as simple as to find somebody to build them all (once for
each runtime available, I think).
I second the importance of this feature as an end user whose not into C,
it's been years since I've seriously used it. Again my experience is from
ActiveState Perl as I haven't yet used LFW though will, I find PPM binary
packages a huge advantage compared to Java, Python and. yes, Lua. I can rest
assured that whatever I get from a repository does work straight out of the
box, with 0 configuration and path management, and doesn't force me to
dabble with make files, install all the MS VC freebies, etc... The PPM CLI,
especially the old interactive one, is so easy to use I've succesfully
instructed non-programmers to do it, too, to get a script running.
I'm not sure if it's a good analogy, but I'd liken the situation to *nix
package management apt-get Vs the Gentoo style of building straight from
source. For people who don't know what they're doing, the former is
definitely easier. Whether the manager is graphical is secondary, though the
CLI would be definitely accessible and easier to automate.
Not doing much C doesn't mean I'd be a bad Lua or Perl programmer as such, I
hope, <grin>. But especially when you're coding recreationally, getting
something up and running quickly and easily is just great. It keeps
programming fun if you will.
Thought I'd put in my two Euro cents, though I must confess I don't know
much about the underlying issues making building stuff on WIn32
comparatively hard.
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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä
Accessibility, Apps and Coding plus Synths and Music:
http://vtatila.kapsi.fi