Re: About the Lua paths on Windows

["Andre Carregal" <carregal@...>]

On 5/14/07, Diego Nehab <diego@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > What about changing this to a slightly different structure:
> >
> > / (lua5.1.exe, lua5.1.dll etc)
> > /lib (C modules such as lfs.dll)
> > /lua (Lua modules such as mime.lua)
>
> Was there a reason for the default behavior? Something to do
> with default search paths? I don't remember why it would be
> different from the Unix default, which has different
> directories lib/ and lua/. Besides uniformity, what are the
> advantages of the proposed change?

Not polluting the namespace of the "/" directory... :o)

Kepler in fact uses a somewhat different layout, but we would gladly
use this one if Lua did.

André