Hard to install/package

[poelzi]

Tried it shortly to install, but so far, this is hard/not packageable whichout headache.
luamake should search a compile time defined path for lua scripts it ships. Those need to be installed into a absolute target, like
/usr/local/[lib|share] and the file installed into $PREFIX/bin needs to search this path.
Changing $HOME/.profile|.... is a strict nogo for every unix package.

[actboy168]

Because of the fragmentation of linux/unix operating systems, maintaining a common installation script is very difficult.This work is usually done by a package management system.

And the installation script that comes with git works fine for me.

[rymdbar]

Could we please have another take on this, and be a bit specific about what the actual problems are?

TL;DR: Would you be open for merging a change to publish.yml, one creating source releases?

Sure, a fragmented world might be a challenging reality. Yet as you write @actboy168, package management systems exist to deal with it. Shortly prior to this issue, there was a request in #29 for introducing versioned releases. A request which has so far only seen a enhancement flag and no comments.

One need not look hard at the repository to realize there is a workflow called publish.yml, which however to the best of my understanding does not appear to actually publish anything?

How would you welcome a few very small but concrete steps towards improving the situation:

1. Rename publish.yml to build.yml, to better have it reflect the current situation.
2. Create a new publish.yml with a job named source. A job which watches for new tags; initiating git modules, building a usable tar ball and storing it as a github release when it happens.
3. Release a version once appropriate to do so, and then automatically get a source release from the above suggested trivial workflow.

Step 1 is not important. Adding a source job to the existing workflow would also work just fine.

The point is not that any competent person has trouble using the git distributed install script to run things on their own machine. What is hard is to do it in the reproducible/structured manner required to include software for package distributions in accordance with their processes.

To be concrete, the git-yolo distribution format of luamake and bee.lua have seemingly stopped all progress on bringing LuaLS to luarocks, as early as during the idea phase. As late as last week I rediscovered this, in an experimental attempt at bringing LuaLS to freebsd-ports.

[actboy168]

@nospam2998 You can submit a pull request to improve this.