Re: "require" with customizable dynamically path?

[Rob Kendrick <lua-l@...>]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 16:03:54 +0200
Michael Bauroth <Michael.Bauroth@falcom.de> wrote:

> I implement something like a dynamical plugin system. The plugins are 
> located on a different path than the default LUA environment. Each 
> plugin can have a different path described in a separate xml file.
> 
> Is it possible to handle such behaviour with the normal "require" 
> function from Lua? (we build the Lua dll ourself)

Sure, but I'm not so sure it's appropriate; surely your application's
plugins would want to be loaded in enclosed environments to stop a bug
in one plugin seriously breaking everything else?

If you really want to; you can just alter/amend the path patterns in
package.path
B.