Saturday, March 02, 2013
Stupid GitHub tricks
All that work parsing
git repositories was for naught—it seems you can
link to individual files on GitHub (go
figure!). So now I can create a rockspec per module, like:
package = "org.conman.tcc"
version = "1.0.0-0"
source =
{
url = "https://raw.github.com/spc476/lua-conmanorg/1.0.0/src/tcc.c"
}
description =
{
homepage = "http://...",
maintainer = "Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>",
license = "LGPL",
summary = "Lua wrapper for TCC",
detailed = [[
Blah blah blah
]]
}
dependencies =
{
"lua ~> 5.1"
}
external_dependencies =
{
TCC = { header = "libtcc.h" }
}
build =
{
type = "builtin",
copy_directories = {},
modules =
{
['org.conman.tcc'] =
{
sources = { 'tcc.c' },
libraries = { "tcc" },
}
},
variables =
{
CC = "$(CC) -std=c99",
CFLAGS = "$(CFLAGS)",
LFLAGS = "$(LIBFLAG)",
LUALIB = "$(LIBDIR)"
}
}
(this particular module embeds a C compiler in Lua, which is something I do need to talk about).
But it isn't like I wasted time on this. No, I don't view it that way at
all. In fact, I learned a few things—how to parse git
repositories, how to parse a variable amount of data in LPeg and I have code to
extract a single file into its own git repository if I ever
have that need again.
