Re: changes in 'require'

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> What happens if a user of the package calls require"foo" (or
> "foo.baz")
> first
> and only later "foo.bar"?  Then bar.lua is never executed!

That is correct. The overriding only works one way, i.e., it doesn't
work. Let's just pretend I didn't say it worked. :/

> IMHO, every identifier passed to require should have an accompanying
> file
> in the filesystem.

But this is what we are trying to avoid. Distributing lots of files is a
big problem on Windows.

> If you want all of them bundled in a single file add tar/jar/zip
> support to lua.

How would that work? How would the interpreter figure out what is inside
a given zip file without loading at least piece of it? Also, placing a
DLL inside a zip file will take more than 10 lines of code, for sure. :)

[]s,
Diego.