Now this looks very nice :) could we have this in the main branch, please.

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Am 03.09.2010 um 09:08 schrieb steve donovan <[email protected]>:

> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:00 PM, steve donovan <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> I like your idea of 'list --long' - let's see how 'show' goes!
> 
> Here's a first iteration: installation is simple [1]. Tested on Debian
> Squeeze and Windows XP with LfW.
> 
> $ luarocks help show
> 
> luarocks show <argument>
> 
> show - Shows information about an installed rock.
> 
> <argument> is an existing package name.
> Without any flags, show all module information.
> With these flags, return only the desired information:
> --home     home page of project
> --modules  all modules provided by this package as used by require()
> --deps     packages this package depends on
> --rockspec the full path of the rockspec file
> --mversion the package version
> 
> $ luarocks show alien
> version:      0.5.0-1
> summary:      Lua->C FFI
> detailed:
> Alien lets a Lua application call load dynamic libraries and call C functions
> in a portable way, using libffi.
> 
> homepage:     http://alien.luaforge.net
> directory:    /usr/local/lib/luarocks/rocks/alien/0.5.0-1
> modules:      alien.struct alien.core alien
> $ luarocks show alien --home
> http://alien.luaforge.net
> $ ls $(luarocks show alien --dir)
> alien-0.5.0-1.rockspec  bin  doc  rock_manifest  samples  tests
> 
> The description information is read from the rockspec, and the module
> information is extracted from the manifest.
> 
> There are a number of other flags that could be useful - like
> 'license' (I always forget this ;)).  The documentation directory for
> a package is conventionally PACKAGE_DIR/doc and that could definitely
> be useful, especially if we try to be a little clever and find a
> suitable index.html or readme.txt, etc.
> 
> We could also make 'luarocks show --info' present a useful summary of
> the important global configuration parameters, like where the
> configuration files are currently living.
> 
> I am unsure how to handle the multiple-version-and-repo issues:  it
> picks the latest version from the last repo, which is _generally_ what
> you want.  Here some guidance is needed...
> 
> steve d.
> 
> [1]
> To install this (or any new command) put it in the luarocks module
> directory (that is, something like /usr/local/share/lua/5.1/luarocks
> or c:\Program Files\Lua\5.1\lua\luarocks).  For Unix, edit the
> luarocks command, which is an executable Lua script and add
> 
> commands.show = require("luarocks.show")
> 
> to the end of the commands list.
> 
> On Windows, do the same but with luarocks.lua (which for LfW at least
> sits in the Lua executable directory
> <show.lua>
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