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> C doesn't have a package manager; people still seem to be able to get the relevant packages when they need them through the OS's package manager. This is fin

> C doesn't have a package manager; people still seem to be able to get the relevant packages when they need them through the OS's package manager. This is fine with Linux, which has at least a few sane package management systems between the different distros. This goes out the window with OS X and Windows. (This may just be an argument that anyone working on server-side software should be working inside a VM that matches your production environment. The Ruby community seems to have shown that people push back very hard on that.)

mtourne 14y ago
In the particular case of Nginx and Lua, the OpenResty package[1] is pretty much self contained except for libpcre. Nginx+Lua is only the core part that powers this ecosystem. OpenResty comes with a lot of libraries for "usual web stuff", except maybe a default template system. I've been using this rather simple one [2] In the full example[3], I installed it on Mac OS (and actually found a small problem with homebrew that should be fixed soon) [1] http://openresty.org/#Download http://openresty.org/#Download [2] http://code.google.com/p/slt/ http://code.google.com/p/slt/ [3] https://github.com/mtourne/nginx_log_by_lua/ https://github.com/mtourne/nginx_log_by_lua/