On 26 January 2014 23:38, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@vaughan.pe> wrote: > 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. > > As long as the installed rocks have `man` in install.copy_directories, and > run "eval `luarocks path`" anyway, this puts manual pages where the `man` > command can find them for free. > > Thoughts?
The problem is that entries under bin/, share/lua/5.x/ and lib/lua/5.x are deployed to common directories, so that a single entry for them can be added to the appropriate path variables. Other files in the rock are not deployed like that, they are stored separately per-rock under lib/luarocks/rocks-5.x/<rock_name>/ so you have tens (or hundreds) of doc (or man) directories. So, it's not feasible to add them all to MANPATH one by one (and the result of eval `luarocks path` would be out of date as soon as you installed another rock, anyway). -- Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatchGuard Dimension instantly turns raw network data into actionable security intelligence. It gives you real-time visual feedback on key security issues and trends. Skip the complicated setup - simply import a virtual appliance and go from zero to informed in seconds. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=123612991&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list Luarocks-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
