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On Tuesday, June 18, 2019 6:28 PM, Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl> wrote:

> Hi Marlin!
>
> I am not really familiar with the Lua ecosystem, but wouldn't it be desir=
able to use Guix to manage Lua package, the way it's done for e.g. Haskell
> right now?
>
> I don't fully understand how luarocks works, but is it possible to have a=
n "importer" for luarocks packages, similar to e.g. the hackage importer?
>
> Best,
> -Dan
>
> On 18-06-19 03:35, Marlin wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to port over fennel and luarocks to guix.
> > Fennel is a lisp language which compiles to lua, and luarocks is a
> > Pypi-like package manager for lua libraries
> > I believe a luarocks build system would be needed.
> > The packges are luarocks.scm and fennel.scm, located at my personal cha=
nnel.
> > https://framagit.org/marlin1113/marlin-guix-packages

It should definitely be possible, especially for pure Lua packages. What wo=
uld be even cooler is if we could share packages between Lua versions.

luarocks can't do that on its own, but since most pure Lua modules are comp=
atible with all three major versions (5.1/luajit,5.2,5.3) it would be desir=
able to be able to only install them once.

It would make testing packages with multiple Lua versions much easier and c=
ould also cut down on disk usage.