Add LuaRock package
imaia opened this issue · comments
That would be quite helpful https://luarocks.org/
This basically means "make a stable release". There is none yet. In the meantime you can do:
luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/philanc/plc/master/rockspec/plc-scm-1.rockspec
I am not sure I understand the relation between "a stable release" and the rockspec file (not familiar enough with Luarocks).
Should/can I just register the current rockspec (plc-scm-1.rockspec) at luarocks.org so that users can luarocks install plc and get the last version?
No, if you do that it will be classified as a development version and not install that way.
The easiest solution is to decide on a release number, add a git tag and create a rockspec that installs that tag. See for instance here, in particular the "branch" field in "source", as opposed to the SCM rockspec here. Then you can just register luarocks upload that rockspec.
Thanks for the explanation and for the example. I created a 'v0.5' release, added a rockspec for it and uploaded it to Luarocks.org.
So now, it is possible to install plc (this release) with luarock install plc
Which is what I think Italo Maia suggested in the first post.
Yes, that's great, I just wasn't sure if you wanted to do it yet!
Thanks to Italo for the nudge and to you for the help!