Am 30.01.2014 16:40 schröbte Hisham:
> On 30 January 2014 07:30, Gary V. Vaughan <g...@vaughan.pe> wrote:
>> Hi Hisham,
>>
>> In principle, would you accept a pull request if I did the work (though I
>> know the internals of LuaRocks almost not at all, so I might need some
>> pointers and a bit of help here and there)?
>
> And will you maintain it afterwards? (IOW, can I ping you if bug
> reports about it come up?)
Manpages is still my favorite online documentation format (sadly not
many scripting languages since perl use it), so I'd be willing to help
with that ...
>
> The way to go about it would be to add an optional flag `--man` to
> luarocks/path.lua (like we have with `--bin`) and also, for
> consistency, to add knowledge about man pages to luarocks/doc.lua
> (though I really don't want to spread logic on finding the `man`
> binary all over the place, the way we did it for the web browser. Just
> assume you can os.execute("man ...") if cfg.is_platform("unix")
> returns true).
We would also need `--lr-man` (because Lua 5.2 users can't use the eval
trick without messing up their Lua 5.1 paths). I'm not sure about the
`luarocks doc` integration, that seems rather complicated ...
>
> -- Hisham
Philipp
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