On 29 January 2014 18:12, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@vaughan.pe> wrote: > 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 would be out of date as soon as you installed another rock, anyway).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 :-)
That's not much better than having that extra script to scan and update the MANPATH. It's the kind of thing that could exist outside of LuaRocks. > 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 ? Yes, especially if they're not portable. -- 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
