Re: require() relative to calling file

[Philipp Janda <siffiejoe@...>]

Am 05.02.2017 um 00:03 schröbte Sean Conner:
> It was thus said that the Great Philipp Janda once stated:
> > Anyway, I also wanted to mention a new rock that appeared recently on
> > LuaRocks.org, and might be of interest: lua-whereami[1], which gives you
> > the path to the Lua executable, so you can at least require modules
> > relative to the Lua executable on non-Windows machines, too ...
> >
> >   [1]: https://luarocks.org/modules/jprjr/whereami
>
>   Interesting.  Not at all how I would expected it to be done (very system
> specific code for each major operating system).

LuaDist does something similar[1].


Philipp

  [1]: http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2015-06/msg00114.html