General search improvement

[leafo]

Searching was improved significantly in #81, but it's still not perfect. If you search for something and it doesn't show up, or not in the order you expect, post it here so I can start to think about what kinds of search queries need to be optimized.

I'll start off:

• searching for "lua socket" or "socket" does not find "LuaSocket"

[bbartoldson]

I am looking for nngraph. Where can I find it? Thanks. Gordon.

[leafo]

Doesn't appear to even be on luarocks.org

[pannous]

me@:~/ luarocks install torch-rnn  
Error: No results matching query were found.
me@:~/$ luarocks install stn
Error: No results matching query were found.

wth?

[leafo]

@pannous it looks like torch-rnn is only available in the development manifest:

luarocks install --server=http://luarocks.org/dev torch-rnn

Also I don't see a package named stn at all.

[Industrial]

Sort by downloads

[edubart]

Search doesn't have pagination and only the first 50 results are shown, I almost missed discovering some useful libaries because of this. Sorting by downloads would be much better too.

[dragon28]

luarocks install fblualib

Error: No results matching query were found.

[leafo]

@dragon28 this is for luarocks website search, not the command line install, which takes exact package name. I don't see that package on the luarocks manifest at all, what do you expect it to install?

[spc476]

I would like to have a way to search for modules for a particular version of Lua.

[chandraadhikari]

luarocks install luasocket
showing error: Warning: Failed searching manifest: Failed loading manifest: Failed fetching manifest for http://luarocks.org/repositories/rocks

Error: No results matching query were found.

[leafo]

@chandraadhikari This issues tracker is for the luarocks website search, not the command line install

[jprjr]

Hi there - I'm working on a binding to libsodium called luasodium

If I search sodium in the luarocks.org search, I would expect luasodium to come up - but it doesn't.