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steve donovan wrote:
Sorry for barging in like this, but but, how's the Lua rocks UI like? Is there anything like PPM (Perl package manager) for it? I found ppm great as a Windows user. I haven't used Lua Rocks before and it is not mentioned in the PIL, so I'll be lazy and ask here rather than Google, <grin>.On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:56 AM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote: > > I understand that this takes some functionality away > Such as having multiple versions of modules installed simultaneously. > (Perl CPAN has been limited in this way.) Well, LfW should provide a simple sane environment for people who are not necessarily rocket scientists ;) <snippage> Considering how successful Perl CPAN has been, even with this limitation, not handling multiple versions does not seem a show-stopper.
That is, this talk of CPAN reminded me of PPM in ActiveState Perl. I *really* liked the 3.x release in terms of its interactive command-line interface. Very friendly, easy and discoverable to use, totally accessible and reasonably powerful, too. Reminds me more of an SQL console than a Unix:ish traditional CLI app, which I personally find a good thing. I even found ppm easier to pick up than apt-get, for example. PPM 4 removed the interactive option and went with a GUI that's not screen reader accessible.
The only two shortcomings in PPM I could think of were inability to remove libraries that installed as dependencies but on which nothing no longer depends. and redundantly keeping copies of modules in site/lib that you already had in lib. Hope Lua Rocks can deal with the equivalent situations.
If you haven't used ppm for one reason or another but would like a brief description of the usage and output of a sample session, my Perl tutorial has a passage about that. A direct link (warning very large page):
<http://vtatila.kapsi.fi/perltut.html#odds_and_ends__package_management__exception_handling_and_useful_win32_functions> Then search for PPM. -- With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä Accessibility, Apps and Coding plus Synths and Music: http://vtatila.kapsi.fi