On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: >> I often feel a desire for a "documentation" link in >> repositories/rocks/index.html , alongside the "project homepage" >> link, because a lot of homepages are fairly inflexible things >> on luaforge or git which don't necessarily offer "documentation" >> links. And yet documentation is very useful ... > > Hisham wrote: >> Agreed, but the lack of documentation standards in Lua is a problem. > > I would have thought that however the doc is produced, it's > possible to produce an html version of it; so that an optional > "docpage" or "documentation_url" field in the rockspec description > table would work around the lack-of-standards problem ? > Even if the only thing done with it was a "documentation" > link in repositories/rocks/ that would still be most useful.
I'm thinking of something in this direction, yes. I'll consider it for the rockspec format revision. > (It's a mystery to me (nor being a user of either) why git and > luaforge pages don't seem to offer documentation buttons...) > > Has anybody ever suggested a luarocks show modulename command > (like aptitude show) ? It could display the version, source url, > description and dependencies, and whether installed or not ... We do have a luarocks show command! -- -- Hisham http://hisham.hm/ - http://colorbleed.com.br/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
