Re: A major problem with the Lua ecosystem

[Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@...>]

On 2 February 2018 at 22:18, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> It was thus said that the Great Dibyendu Majumdar once stated:
>> On 2 February 2018 at 22:00, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
>>
>> >   Lua modules written in Lua can be renamed easily---just change the name of
>> > the file [1].  Modules written in C can't be renamed without a code change
>> > due to possible linking restrictions [2]---Lua looks for
>> > "luaopen_modulename" when loading a C-based module.
>>
>> I was thinking that require should allow an optional module name -
>> i.e. lookup as now, but use the module name (if given) when saving the
>> reference. That way, the name of the module inside Lua becomes
>> independent of how the module was resolved.
>
>   Example?  My own syslog module is in C, and the exported symbol is
>
>         luaopen_org_conman_syslog
>

something like:

local syslog = require ('org.conman.syslog', 'conman.syslog')

So that Lua uses 'conman.syslog' to register the library in package.preload.

I haven't really thought this through but it should convey the idea.

Of course this is still problematic because someone has to require it
with the desired name - then other references can use 'conman.syslog'.
So it probably doesn't work.

Regards
Dibyendu