From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Frumin Subject: Re: Fennel and Luarocks Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 18:28:43 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fto7ptf9.fsf@firemail.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53721) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hdGye-0008P5-OT for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:28:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hdGyc-00009q-Ja for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:28:56 -0400 Received: from smtp1.science.ru.nl ([131.174.16.143]:52822) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hdGyb-0008Pr-V8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:28:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87fto7ptf9.fsf@firemail.cc> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Marlin , guix-devel@gnu.org Hi Marlin! I am not really familiar with the Lua ecosystem, but wouldn't it be desirable 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 an "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 channel. > https://framagit.org/marlin1113/marlin-guix-packages >