[Luarocks-developers] Providing Penlight libraries as Separate Rocks

[steve donovan <steve...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Some time back I put pl.stringio up as a separate rock, since it's
rather useful and it's a drag to have a whole big-ish library as a
dependency.

This argument applies to a number of the Penlight modules, of course.
For instance, pl.template is basically Rici Lake's
SlightlyLessSimplePreprocessor with customizable line and escape
symbols.  So that's a candidate, call it 'riciprepro'.

pl.config is a very flexible configuration file reader which
understands both ini- and Unix-style formats, and I'm thinking of
making it available as 'configfile'.

There's a number of other modules that are candidates for this
rockification, and I was wondering what people think generally of the
utility and wisdom of this approach?

(Before I start spamming the list with modules that aren't really that
useful on their own!)

steve d.