Re: Proposal: smartlua

[Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@...>]

On Mar 11, 2013, at 18:02, Michal Kottman <michal.kottman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The downside is that the database must be maintained manually and is
> error-prone. A more robust way of building the database is on the way.
>
> Suggestions/improvements are welcome.
>
> [1] https://github.com/LuaDist/intellua
>

This sounds cool, Mark.

Question... It seems like adding a package searcher to Lua would be
the best place to make this works, as opposed to changing require's
behavior. The searcher approach is even pointed out in PiL, I believe.
Is there something I'm missing that makes this patch needed?

-Andrew