Thierry,

Am 14.01.20 um 19:37 schrieb Tim Düsterhus:
> Willy,
> 
> Am 14.01.20 um 14:53 schrieb Willy Tarreau:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 02:04:04PM +0100, Thierry Fournier wrote:
>>> Idea 1:
>>>
>>>    lua-prepend-path path /etc/haproxy/lua-modules/?.lua
>>>    lua-prepend-path cpath /etc/haproxy/lua-cmodules/?.lua
>>>
>>> Idea 2:
>>>
>>>    lua-prepend-path /etc/haproxy/lua-modules/?.lua
>>>    lua-prepend-path cpath /etc/haproxy/lua-cmodules/?.lua
>>>
>>> Idea 3:
>>>
>>>    lua-prepend-path /etc/haproxy/lua-modules/?.lua
>>>    lua-prepend-cpath /etc/haproxy/lua-cmodules/?.lua
>>
>> I guess the third one is better, at least for a reason which is that
>> it causes less confusion when asking a bug reporter "what's in your
>> lua-prepend-path ?". We've seen sufficient confusion from the maxconn
>> word being used for different tihngs depending on where it's set, so
>> we'd rather keep this clear.
> 
> Let me give my reasoning for my choice:
> 
> - I wanted to avoid two completely distinct configuration options for
> what is essentially the same thing. It would require adding both to the
> documentation.
> - I made the type optional, because I expect the majority of modules
> loaded via this option to be pure Lua modules. The path is meant to be
> the home of HAProxy specific modules. I consider it unlikely for an user
> to develop a C based Lua module that is HAProxy specific when they can
> simply use a regular C based HAProxy module without corkscrewing it
> through Lua. Stuff such as cjson would be put into the system wide Lua
> path and thus be available to every Lua script including HAProxy,
> because it sits in the default path that is compiled into the Lua VM.
> - I put the type last, because I consider optional parameters that are
> in the middle to be unintuitive and it complicates parsing, because a
> single index might either be the type or the path if the type is not given.
> 
> However I don't particularly care for any of this. If you feel like we
> should to lua-prepend-path and lua-prepend-cpath instead then I'm happy
> to adjust the patch (or you do it).
> 
> Best regards
> Tim Düsterhus
> 

Are you happy with my patch series as is or would you like to see
changes? Should I update the config syntax?

Best regards
Tim Düsterhus

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