Coming from the other direction, luarocks binding to just one version of Lua, is an absolute pain in the ass. I've got some libraries that support five or six

Coming from the other direction, luarocks binding to just one version of Lua, is an absolute pain in the ass. I've got some libraries that support five or six different versions of Lua. Building packages for all of them basically means throwing luarocks out the window, because linking to multiple Lua runtimes ti=o luarocks does all kinds of truly heinous things. You can end up with the library and headers linked from different runtimes, simply because it isn't following what the local system says is available.