Hi Sean, > On Jan 27, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Sean Conner <s...@conman.org> wrote: > > It was thus said that the Great Gary V. Vaughan once stated: >> Hi Hisham, >> >> For rocks that provide scripts in bin, luarocks copies those out to >> $TREE_ROOT/bin, but there's currently no way to add Unix man pages. >> Rather than special-casing certain directories, such as 'man' in the >> installed rock package trees (although that would be a useful feature in >> itself for more than just manual page hierarchies) I think it would be >> super-useful to have `luarocks path` set the MANPATH environment to >> include any install luarocks with top-level `man` directories. > > I already have MANPATH defined for my environment, so what is the expected > result?
That any man pages installed with luarocks will be available without having to write a shell script to dig through the rock trees searching for man directories and adding them to your MANPATH manually. For example, My specl rock installs specl.1 (currently in the doc dir, but I'd change the location in a heartbeat if that meant 'man specl' would find it), Zile installs zmacs and zlc, and in the next release zz, all are copied to bin and 'eval `luarocks path`' adds the rock tree bin directory to my PATH so the shell can find them... my proposal would mean the accompanying zmacs.1, zlc.1 and zz.1 would be available by typing 'man zmacs' etc etc after luarocks path adds the rocks tree man directories to MANPATH. Hope that clarifies :-) Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
