lpm

lpm is a package manager for Lua, written in Lua.

It was created due to my frustration with the current status quo of package management in the Lua ecosystem.

• LuaRocks is sorely dated, difficult to manage, and hardly maintained.
• Lux, while promising, is written in Rust and seems to be targeting backwards compatibility with LuaRocks.

Features

• Local package management, no venv or global installs.
• Relative package installation via lpm add --path <package> and lpm install.
• Git repository installation via lpm add --git <repo> supporting monorepos/subdirectories.
• lpm compile - Create a single executable application from your entire project, easily distributable.
• lpm test - Run test lua scripts in your project.

Requirements

• glibc 2.35+
• gcc if you plan on using lpm compile
  • This requirement may be lifted at some point in the future.

Installation

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codebycruz/lpm/master/install.sh | sh

Windows

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/codebycruz/lpm/master/install.ps1 | iex

Development

In the future this will be streamlined with a devcontainer, but that's not a priority for me until Zed's support for devcontainers improves.