[aur-general] first package -- luagraph

[Philipp Gesang]

On 2011-01-14 <09:39:28>, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from Philipp Gesang's message of 2011-01-14 09:21:57 +0100:
> > Hello archers,
> > 
> > for my own use I made a pkgbuild of luaGRAPH[1] and I’d like to
> > share it via aur. As this will be my first contribution I guess
> > it can’t hurt to have it reviewed here by more experienced users
> > before submitting.
> > 
> > Thanks for your opinion, Philipp
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://luagraph.luaforge.net/
> >     http://luaforge.net/projects/luagraph/
> > 
> > # Maintainer: Philipp Gesang <megas dot kapaneus at gmail dot com>
> > pkgname=luagraph
> > pkgver=1.0.4
> > pkgrel=1
> > pkgdesc="LuaGRAPH is a binary module to create, manipulate, layout and render graphs using the Lua programming language."
> > arch=("any")
> > url="http://luaforge.net/projects/${pkgname}"
> > license=("MIT")
> > depends=("lua" "graphviz")
> > source=("http://luaforge.net/frs/download.php/4528/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
> >         "LICENSE")
> > md5sums=("f2f71bcbabf243792e230665b1403f58"
> >          "814f32bd3d115e90f777e7baf714338d")
> > 
> > build() {
> >   cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}" || return 1
> >   make
> >   install -Dm0755 graph/core.so "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/lua/5.1/graph/core.so"   || return 1
> >   install -Dm0644 graph.lua "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/lua/5.1/graph.lua"           || return 1
> >   install -Dm0644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" || return 1
> > }
> 
> Is there a reason to distribute it as a binary? Compiling from source is
> the preferred way. Link to source tarballs:
> http://luaforge.net/frs/?group_id=237&release_id=1626
> 
> Also, binary packages should be postfixed with -bin.

Hi Philipp,

“binary module” in Lua doesn’t mean that it has to be distributed
as binary but rather that it is a compiled library as opposed to
modules written entirely in Lua. In fact, the “pkgdesc” string is
taken right from the project’s page. Lua users will understand.

Best regards, Philipp
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