Re: package location awareness?

[PA <petite.abeille@...>]

On Feb 03, 2005, at 09:35, Peter Loveday wrote:

> Does this solve the problem for locating other (non-lua) files  
> relative to my package also, or only other .lua ones?

Well, once you know the location of a package, you can find non-Lua  
resources relative to that package.

In a nutshell, this is what I'm planning to do:

"An NSBundle represents a location in the file system that groups code  
and resources that can be used in a program. NSBundles locate program  
resources, dynamically load executable code, and assist in  
localization."

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/ 
ObjC_classic/Classes/NSBundle.html

> Say I want to load a .jpg file that I bundle with my package, for  
> whaterver reason, can I use this method in 5.1 to do this?

Not out-of-the-box, but once you have the package location itself, it's  
breeze to do so.

> If not, then the problem still exists...

It would be indeed helpful if the magic 'require' function did record  
the original location of a package and made that information available  
in a standard fashion. In the meantime, debug.getinfo() it is :/

Cheers

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