0000296: package.path broken

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000296	luatex	luatex bug	public	2009-11-09 13:46	2009-11-18 16:55

Reporter	patrick	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	fixed
Product Version	0.44.0
Fixed in Version	0.45.0

Summary	0000296: package.path broken
Description	In contradiction to the luatex reference manual (3.1.1) and in contradiction to the lua reference manual (http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#pdf-package.path) the package.path does not work. This breaks all existing lua scripts that rely on the Lua standard mechanism for path searching. Example: root/bin/helloworld.lua: #!/usr/bin/env texlua if arg[0]:sub(1,1) ~= "/" then arg[0] = lfs.currentdir() .. "/" .. arg[0] end local installdir=arg[0]:gsub("/%./","/"):gsub("(%w+)/bin/[^/]+$","%1") package.path = installdir .. "/dir/?.lua" require("foobar") breaks, even if foobar.lua is in root/dir/foobar.lua. Please bring back package.path
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-11-09 13:46	patrick	New Issue
2009-11-09 14:25	Taco	Note Added: 0000327
2009-11-09 14:25	Taco	Status	new => resolved
2009-11-09 14:25	Taco	Resolution	open => fixed
2009-11-18 16:54	Taco	Fixed in Version	=> 0.45.0
2009-11-18 16:55	Taco	Status	resolved => closed

Taco 2009-11-09 14:25 administrator ~0000327	First: the luatex supercedes the lua manual. When they differ, the luatexref-t.pdf is leading, not the other way around. And besides: commit #3097 should resolve this issue.