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what does pip do to not suck? (programming.dev)
submitted 6 days ago by irelephant@programming.dev to c/python@programming.dev
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I've been trying to get luarocks to work on windows, and all it gives is cryptic gcc errors.

How does pip manage to work on most platforms without issues?

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[–] nitrofurano@ciberlandia.pt -3 points 6 days ago (8 children)

@irelephant do anyone care a thing about windoze? :O

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Lack of windows support for most luarocks modules has stopped me from writing a lot of stuff in lua.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Who are you writing package for?

backend stuff need not run on Windows at all.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking of making a simple SSG (Static Site Generator), and I wanted to make it in lua.
some other cli tools, like scraping scripts as well.

[–] logging_strict@programming.dev 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So web scraping speed is at issue? I believe Python has beautifulsoup for web scrapping.

Unless it's for a learning experience, would recommend to not reinvent the wheel. Have been there done that too many times.

I feel like the village idiot cuz not properly learning that lesson.

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 1 points 24 minutes ago

No, speed isn't the issue. Its installing packages/modules on windows with luarocks, the lua package manager. It doesn't work half the time on windows.

[–] nitrofurano@ciberlandia.pt 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@irelephant lack of support of an "operating system" that shouldnt exist at all is actually a great thing! ;)

[–] irelephant@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

most people are on windows, so if I make something, it should support that.

[–] nitrofurano@ciberlandia.pt 1 points 3 days ago

@irelephant it reminds me what my mother used to say all the time: "its not because most people are jumping into a hole that you have to as well" xD

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