Release v0.8.0

LuaRocks support

This is the big one. lpm can now install packages from the LuaRocks registry using the luarocks field in your lpm.json:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "luafilesystem": { "luarocks": "luafilesystem" },
    "busted": { "luarocks": "busted" }
  }
}

You can also add them from the CLI:

lpm add rocks:luafilesystem

lpx and lpm install support it too:

lpx rocks:luacheck
lpm install rocks:busted
busted

If a package has a rockspec in a git repo, you can point to it manually with the rockspec field:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "middleclass": {
      "git": "https://github.com/kikito/middleclass",
      "rockspec": "./rockspecs/middleclass-4.1.1-0.rockspec"
    }
  }
}

LuaRocks support includes C module compilation — lpm will download LuaJIT headers and compile native modules automatically. Platform-specific modules are handled too.

This is an initial implementation. Things may not work perfectly across all packages — if you run into issues, please report them.

Archive dependencies

You can now install dependencies directly from a .zip or tarball URL:

{
  "dependencies": {
    "foo": { "archive": "https://example.com/foo.zip" }
  }
}

Flat lockfile for transitive dependencies

Previously, transitive dependencies weren’t always tracked reliably. Now lpm stores all dependencies - direct and transitive - flat in a single lockfile. This is how it was always intended to work, and it makes installs more deterministic and conflict-free.

Basic REPL

Running lpm repl drops you into an interactive Lua session with your project’s dependencies available:

lpm repl

New lpm-test utilities

A few more additions to the test framework:

test.skip()           -- unconditionally skip a test
test.skipIf(cond)     -- skip if condition is true
test.deepEqual(a, b)  -- deep equality check
test.match(str, pat)  -- pattern match assertion

Skipped tests are now printed separately in the output.