Hi all, The rationale for this new command is that often you would like to display information about an installed rock.
The particular need is if the user wants to look at the packaged documentation or examples. This is what I envisage the output looking like: $ luarocks show alien Directory: /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks/alien/0.5.0-1 Summary: Lua->C FFI Description: Alien lets a Lua application call and loa dynamic libraries and C functions in a portable way, using libffi Homepage: http://alien.luaforge.net Which is mostly what you would get from the rockspec, presented neatly. But there are also flags for returning specific information: for instance, using the flag --dir gives you just /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks/alien/0.5.0-1, so that $ ls $(luarocks show --dir alien) does the expected thing. Likewise, --home gives you just http://alien.luaforge.net and can be used with gnome-open, start or some other browser launcher. Other bits of information that may be useful include licence and dependencies; perhaps these can be controlled by --extra. If there is any interest in this command, I'm happy to knock together a working prototype. Also, should a non-local search be enabled by default? steve d. _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
