On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:12 PM, steve donovan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Andre Carregal <[email protected]> wrote: >> somewhat of an overload of the verb show. For me at least, "show" >> would be better used for things that are available locally, while >> "query" (or something similar) would fit better for things that are >> not "here". > > I suppose I have been getting used to 'aptitude show'. So the next > question would be, do people want a query command?
I'd just add a --remote flag to the show command, or something similar. If the remote manifests are gzipped, pulling them down and searching them should be incredibly minimal on the network. Making it an option to show saves everyone hassle (the same command works the same way, rather than two commands doing the same thing). > It would do a search on the remote repo(s), grab the rockspec and > extract the basic information. It may find enough information to > present the modules defined by the package, although not always (e.g. > if the install is done by a makefile) > > (Hisham, how does LR know how to populate the modules fields in the > local manifest in this case?) _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luaforge.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luarocks-developers
