I like the idea of keywords; but not so much in the rockspec. If it could just be a field editable on luarocks.org (like description is) that would be good.
In which case it's probably best to make a feature request @ https://github.com/leafo/luarocks-site ? On 2 May 2015 at 19:07, Peter Billam <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings. > > To make it easy for Lua-users to find the most helpful module, > it could be useful to introduce a > keywords = { 'serialisation', 'datadumper', } > or > keywords = { 'fft', 'fourier transform', 'matrix', } > line into the rockspec spec, so that luarocks.org could search > for keywords. This would allow eg: a search for 'fft' to show > NumLua as well as LuaFFT. It would be a lot less disruptive > than trying to encourage descriptive module-names :-) > > A no-spec-change alternative would be to search the summary or > the detailed, though they would generate more noise. Presumably > results from a detailed-search should be presented last, after results > from a module-name-match or a keyword-match, or a summary-match. > > Regards, Peter Billam > > http://www.pjb.com.au [email protected] (03) 6278 9410 > "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman > from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud > Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications > Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights > Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y > _______________________________________________ > Luarocks-developers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Luarocks-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/luarocks-developers
