Hi Hisham, > On Jan 30, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Hisham <h...@hisham.hm> wrote: > >> 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
Why not? Only the rocks that ship man pages in a 'man' directory will need to be added, and even a few dozen extra paths on MANPATH is better that not being able to read man pages - except by writing a script to search rocks trees manually and add those same paths to MANPATH by yourself. > (and the result of eval `luarocks path` > would be out of date as soon as you installed another rock, anyway). Until you run luarocks path again :-) Of course, I'd be even happier if luarocks amalgamated the man directories in the same way as the bin directories, but IIRC you were reluctant to start a trend of managing more and more special cases like that ? Cheers, -- Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT vaughan DOT pe) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
