Documentation of the pkg.available() returned table ?

[tst2005]

Hello,

I searching for a while a better way to manage modules in lua (because the standard package/require does not manage version).

Your pkg module is really interesting.
I planned to follow the same API/format for my own implementation.
I'm only focused on information and managment, not on installation or update.

I don't found Specs about the format of the pkg.available() returned table.
I should discover it by seeking in the source code, but it will not tell me if field are Mandatory or Optional...

I see we have pkg.available to read and check ...
There is no way to add module information directly, I supposed it was done internaly by pkg.add
in my case, I planned to add a pkg.provide(...) to add new module information.

You are interested by writing Spec together ?

Best Regards

[stepelu]

First of all, apologies but the documentation on GitHub is outdated, I'll fix this soon.

For now, please refer to http://www.scilua.org/ulua.html and http://www.scilua.org/pkg.html.
The spec format is reported at http://www.scilua.org/ulua.html#specifications where I discuss about the __meta.lua file format.
The only essential fields are name and version, but it's best practice to include all of them, I think kept the required effort to a minimal level.

The meta information is managed by forcing the following the directory structure:

root_dir/package_name/package_version/__meta.lua

At startup time, the pkg module discovers all available modules by traversing the sub-folders of root_dir in search for __meta.lua files.

Also, pkg.available() does not return any table right now (it is a planned feature).

If you tell me exactly what you want to achieve maybe I can help you.