Re: extending lua load path

[Oliver Mueller <oliver.mueller@...>]

nice, this comes very close to the ruby version...a little more
verbose but it will work for me.

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:36 AM, David Manura <dm.lua@math2.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Oliver Mueller
> <oliver.mueller@gmail.com> wrote:
>> One script requires another like this:
>> 1.script ("scripts/myscript.lua"):
>> require('base') ...
>> 2.script ("scripts/base.lua"): ...
>> But when I call it from anywhere else, the require "base" is not found:
>
> My findbin and lib [1,2] modules (based on analogous modules from
> Perl) had that in mind:
>
>  -- /qux/bar/baz.lua
>  print(require 'findbin'.bin) --> prints directory of script (/qux/bar)
>  require 'lib' (require 'findbin' '/../lib')
>     -- adds a path relative to the directory of the current script to the
>     -- package search paths (package.path & package.cpath).
>  require 'foo'  -- loads from new search paths (/qux/lib/foo.lua)
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/1342319
> [2] https://gist.github.com/1342365
>
>

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