--- Module implementing the LuaRocks "help" command. -- This is a generic help display module, which -- uses a global table called "commands" to find commands -- to show help for; each command should be represented by a -- table containing "help" and "help_summary" fields. local help = {} local util = require("luarocks.util") local cfg = require("luarocks.core.cfg") local dir = require("luarocks.dir") local program = util.this_program("luarocks") help.help_summary = "Help on commands. Type '"..program.." help ' for more." help.help_arguments = "[]" help.help = [[ is the command to show help for. ]] local function print_banner() util.printout("\nLuaRocks "..cfg.program_version..", the Lua package manager") end local function print_section(section) util.printout("\n"..section) end local function get_status(status) if status then return "ok" else return "not found" end end --- Driver function for the "help" command. -- @param command string or nil: command to show help for; if not -- given, help summaries for all commands are shown. -- @return boolean or (nil, string): true if there were no errors -- or nil and an error message if an invalid command was requested. function help.command(description, commands, command) assert(type(description) == "string") assert(type(commands) == "table") if not command then print_banner() print_section("NAME") util.printout("\t"..program..[[ - ]]..description) print_section("SYNOPSIS") util.printout("\t"..program..[[ [] [VAR=VALUE]... [] ]]) print_section("GENERAL OPTIONS") util.printout([[ These apply to all commands, as appropriate: --dev Enable the sub-repositories in rocks servers for rockspecs of in-development versions --server= Fetch rocks/rockspecs from this server (takes priority over config file) --only-server= Fetch rocks/rockspecs from this server only (overrides any entries in the config file) --only-sources= Restrict downloads to paths matching the given URL. --lua-dir= Which Lua installation to use. --lua-version= Which Lua version to use. --tree= Which tree to operate on. --local Use the tree in the user's home directory. To enable it, see ']]..program..[[ help path'. --global Use the system tree when `local_by_default` is `true`. --verbose Display verbose output of commands executed. --timeout= Timeout on network operations, in seconds. 0 means no timeout (wait forever). Default is ]]..tostring(cfg.connection_timeout)..[[.]]) print_section("VARIABLES") util.printout([[ Variables from the "variables" table of the configuration file can be overridden with VAR=VALUE assignments.]]) print_section("COMMANDS") for name, modname in util.sortedpairs(commands) do local cmd = require(modname) util.printout("", name) util.printout("\t", cmd.help_summary) end print_section("CONFIGURATION") util.printout("\tLua version: " .. cfg.lua_version) if cfg.luajit_version then util.printout("\tLuaJIT version: " .. cfg.luajit_version) end util.printout() util.printout("\tConfiguration files:") local conf = cfg.config_files util.printout("\t\tSystem : ".. dir.normalize(conf.system.file) .. " (" .. get_status(conf.system.found) ..")") if conf.user.file then util.printout("\t\tUser : ".. dir.normalize(conf.user.file) .. " (" .. get_status(conf.user.found) ..")") else util.printout("\t\tUser : disabled in this LuaRocks installation.") end if conf.project then util.printout("\t\tProject : ".. dir.normalize(conf.project.file) .. " (" .. get_status(conf.project.found) ..")") end util.printout() util.printout("\tRocks trees in use: ") for _, tree in ipairs(cfg.rocks_trees) do if type(tree) == "string" then util.printout("\t\t"..dir.normalize(tree)) else local name = tree.name and " (\""..tree.name.."\")" or "" util.printout("\t\t"..dir.normalize(tree.root)..name) end end util.printout() else command = command:gsub("-", "_") local cmd = commands[command] and require(commands[command]) if cmd then local arguments = cmd.help_arguments or "" print_banner() print_section("NAME") util.printout("\t"..program.." "..command.." - "..cmd.help_summary) print_section("SYNOPSIS") util.printout("\t"..program.." "..command.." "..arguments) print_section("DESCRIPTION") util.printout("",(cmd.help:gsub("\n","\n\t"):gsub("\n\t$",""))) print_section("SEE ALSO") if cmd.help_see_also then util.printout(cmd.help_see_also) end util.printout("","'"..program.." help' for general options and configuration.\n") else return nil, "Unknown command: "..command end end return true end return help