Feature request: hererocks integration

[drauschenbach]

I recently discovered that GopherLua has a stand-alone interpreter. Awesome!

I think it is worth investigating doing an integration with the hererocks project.

Lua-based open source libraries use hererocks to perform Travis CI matrix builds.

For example, here is a snip from .travis.yml in my lua-thrift project:

env:
  - LUA="lua=5.1"
  - LUA="lua=5.2"
  - LUA="luajit=2.0"
  - LUA="luajit=2.1"

before_install:
  - pip install hererocks
  - hererocks lua_install -r^ --$LUA
  - export PATH=$PATH:$PWD/lua_install/bin

This ensures that every commit and PR gets its build and unit tests validated against Lua 5.1 & 5.2, and LuaJIT 2.0 and 2.1.

I'd really love to see Travis CI validation against GopherLua as well, possibly through an entry such as this:

env:
  - LUA="gopherlua=5.1"

What would be required for this is:

1. For the GopherLua project to adopt tagging and semver -- and possibly being more explicit about being a 5.1 VM. E.g. tag/version = 5.1-23 (release Add a Gitter chat badge to README.rst #23 of 5.1) -- leaving the door open to future support of 5.2+.
2. Interact with the author of hererocks in order to determine how best to integrate.

GopherLua is fantastic, and I'd love to drive broader adoption.

[yuin]

I think it is more important the hererock rather than this project for this feature request. Anyways, GopherLua does not support the luarocks, so the taste is different from the others...

So, I think that it is better to propose this feature to hererock and ask hererock's intention.

[drauschenbach]

I mention it here because it cannot be done over there without a better tagging strategy here.