Release v0.6.0

Built-in test runner

Now lpm ships with a built-in test runner, lpm-test.

LPM has had lpm test for a while, but it just ran the lua files, so writing tests would involve separating into individual files for each assertion, which isn’t ideal.

You can now use lpm-test which is provided by the lpm runtime to write tests in a more traditional way, with test suites and assertions.

local test = require('lpm-test')

test.it('should add numbers correctly', function()
	test.equal(1 + 1, 2)
end)

test.it('should handle tables', function()
	local t = {1, 2, 3}
	test.equal(#t, 3)
end)

You can read more about it on its dedicated docs page: Test Runner.

lpm_modules renamed to target

The overly-verbose name following the convention of node_modules has been renamed to target for simplicity.

You may have to edit your .gitignore to ignore this new folder.

lpm bundle

LPM now supports bundling your project into a single lua file, which is useful for distribution.

This can be done with the lpm bundle command, which will create a file <projectname>.lua.

This is useful as an alternative to lpm compile when you don’t need a native executable.

lpm update

This updates your unpinned git dependencies by pulling the latest changes from their respective repositories.

lpm add and lpm remove preserve formatting

Previously, the json parser/stringifier used by lpm add and lpm remove would reformat the lpm.json file into a terse format without preserving field ordering. It’d pretty much nuke it.

Now, the JSON library has been replaced with one that preserves ordering and pretty prints nicely.

Refactors

• Added a test suite and regression harness for lpm based on lpm-test.

Bug fixes

• Fixed internal issues causing lpm compile to generate files that weren’t executable (needed chmod +x)

• Fixed windows build up and got test harness passing on it.