Show HN: Lux – a luxurious package manager for Lua

johnea · 2025-04-07T18:28:44 1744050524

I hate luxury...

andrewmcwatters · 2025-04-07T18:20:43 1744050043

I don't see this listed here or the other associated sites, so I'll ask:

1. Does this integrate natively with `package.path` and `package.cpath`?

2. Does it detect non-standard, popular installations like through brew(1)?

3. Can you install by GitHub `:user/:repository`?

Also, neat project! Nice work.

mrcjkb · 2025-04-07T18:28:33 1744050513

1. The commands, `lx run` and `lx lua` will set the `PATH`, `LUA_PATH` and `LUA_CPATH`. And there's a `lx path` command for setting those environment variables.

2. It defaults to using pkg-config to detect Lua installations and will fall back to installing Lua via the `lua_src` and `luajit_src` crates if it can't find them. We may eventually add support for other tools like vcpkg.

3. Not yet. It's on our roadmap to add support for that to our lux.toml/dependencies spec, but we probably won't allow rockspecs with that to be published to luarocks.org, because we don't want to be the reason people publish packages that can't be built by luarocks.

Thanks :)

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