Re: Docker based Lua library development

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great tobias@justdreams.de once stated:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when building my own libraries I found it cumbersome to set up some
> framework that allows me to run my stuff and and not install it locally
> which would have contaminated the local installation.  Instead I used a
> custom patched version of Lua that extended the package path to something
> relative of the Lua executable (Windows allows that out of the box) and
> run it this way.  All this was orchestrated by a rather magical Makefile. 
> It seemed cool at the time, elegant even, but in all honesty it was pretty
> convoluted.

  So what's wrong with using the environment variables?

[spc]lucy:~>LUA_PATH_5_3="./?.lua" LUA_CPATH_5_3="./?.so" lua-53
Lua 5.3.4  Copyright (C) 1994-2017 Lua.org, PUC-Rio
> print(package.path)
./?.lua
> print(package.cpath)
./?.so
> 

  -spc