[aur-general] first package -- luagraph

[Philipp Überbacher]

Excerpts from Philipp Gesang's message of 2011-01-14 10:06:29 +0100:
> 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

Might be, but I see that the source is available, hence it's possible to
build and install instead of downloading binaries. Building from source
is the preferred way. If the source is available and you download
binaries anyway you should postfix the name with -bin so that others can
create the 'normal' package.