Wil Thomason

@pikrzysztof I'm also encountering this crash, but I think it may be expected - per #31, `async` is not supported (though it would be nice if it were added).

See @teto's comment on #526 for the first part. Re: `new-version`: My understanding was that this command only updates the rockspec for a given rock, and does not actually update...

Yes; I'm not sure that `new-version` solves any problems for us here (though I *do* want to find a way to update installed rocks, which we currently lack).

Thanks for the report! I admit, I had not anticipated this case. Do you think it would be reasonable to cache the correct shell identity as a module-local variable, rather...

That's a fair idea. I thought about this when adapting `neorocks` to the `packer` luarocks module, but opted to keep using the activation script in case `luarocks` updates what that...

Making a blocking install is more involved than it seems on its face, because the jobs we rely on are inherently non-blocking. We could use busy-waiting (e.g. a loop until...

Note to myself/anyone who wants to take this issue on: `vim.wait` might provide a good way to make things block without spinning.

I think it may be time to move information like this to a FAQ or wiki; the README is already cumbersome. I agree that #259 provides a reasonable mechanism for...

@petertriho: Do you encounter errors, or does it just silently fail?

@petertriho: I think this is related to `packer.clean` being made async since #106. However, it's likely that the sync operation was never fully working - probably just fired off the...