Re: How can a module intentionally fail to load?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2018-08-07 4:32 GMT+02:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>
>         -----[ my-tls.lua / loaded as a module ]----
>
>         local tls = require "org.conman.tls"
>
>         if tls.LIBRESSL_VERSION < 0x2050000f then
>           ??? there's no point in continuing with loading
>           ??? this module, because libtls will not let us
>           ??? control the socket.
>         end
>
>   How to I abort the module?  There's nothing I can find in the
> documentation to deal with this, unless I'm missing something.

The answer is so simple that maybe I don't understand the question.

Inside that 'if', write a message on io.stderr and return false.