Re: "require" with customizable dynamically path?

[Michael Bauroth <Michael.Bauroth@...>]

Thank's for all responses! I've noticed the availability of package 
right now and manipulating package.path does the trick. Are there 
possibly available problems I don't see at the moment?

Regards
Micha


Rob Kendrick schrieb:
> 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.