Rockbuild

rockwriter stopped working for me after its prompt library, Croissant, broke for me on Alpine. This library takes a different approach, writing the rockspec in YAML, and taking care of the steps like compiling it, versioning, uploading and such.

In here, you don't have to include the version and source.tag fields: Rockbuild will fill them for you.

Usage

Create a rock.yml (or any other YAML file, as long as you pass the filename with -f) that has the structure of a normal rockspec. You can look at the rock.yml for this repo for an example. There are a couple changes:

• build_dependencies is dependencies.build in YAML
• external_dependencies is dependencies.external in YAML
• supported_platforms is platforms in YAML

Then, the basics are:

# Just prints the resulting rockspec
$ rockbuild --dry 1.0
# Generate a new rockspec, then make it
$ rockbuild -m 1.0
# Delete the rockspec after creating and making it
$ rockbuild -m --delete 1.0
# Store rockspecs in a different location
$ rockbuild -d rocks 1.0
# This one is equivalent to:
#   git add -A
#   git commit -m "Producing rockspec 1.0-1"
#   git tag -a v1.0
#   git push --tags
#   luarocks upload rockspecs/package-1.0-1.rockspec
$ rockbuild -t 1.0 upload

Full usage

Usage: rockbuild [-h] [-p <prefix>] [-s <suffix>] [-f <file>]
       [-d <dir>] [--dry] [--delete] [-r <revision>] [-m] [-t] [-v]
       <version> [<command>] ...

Compile YAML rockframes into Lua rockspecs

Arguments:
   version                  version for your rockspec

Options:
   -h, --help               Show this help message and exit.
         -p <prefix>,       sets the prefix for the source tag (default: v)
   --prefix <prefix>
         -s <suffix>,       sets the suffix for the source tag (default: )
   --suffix <suffix>
       -f <file>,           rockframe location (default: rock.yml)
   --file <file>
      -d <dir>,             rockspec output location (default: rockspecs)
   --dir <dir>
   --dry                    prints the resulting rockspec and does nothing else
   --delete                 deletes the rockspec after using it
           -r <revision>,   custom revision for the rockspec
   --revision <revision>
   -m, --make               runs 'luarocks make' after compiling the rockspec
   -t, --tag                Adds a git tag after compiling the rockspec
   -v, --version            Shows the current version

Commands:
   upload, u                uploads the rockspec after compile

https://github.com/daelvn/rockbuild

Install

You can install this project through LuaRocks

$ luarocks install rockbuild