On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 14:04, steve donovan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Although much information can be extracted by capturing and parsing
> the output of various LuaRocks commands such as search, list, show,
> etc it would sometimes be very convenient if a Lua application could
> query LuaRocks directly.  Then it would be straightforward to build
> custom tools to manage LR directly.

For what it is worth, here is a makeshift implementation of some of
mentioned "capturing and parsing output" stuff:

https://github.com/lua-aplicado/lua-aplicado/blob/master/lua-aplicado/shell/luarocks.lua

Alexander.

P.S. Hisham, don't you think it is time to merge some of commits from
Steve's repo? Like machine-readable luarocks list?

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