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                              Stupid GitHub tricks
                                        
All that work parsing git repositories [1] 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 [2] and I have code to extract a single file
into its own git repository if I ever have that need again.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2013/03/01.1
[2] http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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