I would agree that this is not so hacky, and a nice way to do things while
developing. But that's not to say it couldn't be better. I've been writing
JavaScript recently, and NPM has a useful command called "link" for this
sort of thing. If you're feeling ambitious, you could steal, I mean propose
a similar feature for LuaRocks.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 12:18 AM Thijs Schreijer <th...@thijsschreijer.nl>
wrote:
>
> > I've actually had a play with what I suggested above, sort of: in ~/lua I
> > have symlinks to the appropriate parts of the modules that would
> otherwise
> > be "luarocks make"d (at the moment these are all pure Lua so no building
> > is needed) and I've added that to LUA_PATH. It feels a bit hacky, but it
> > scratches the itch.
>
> Not hacky at all, dev setup is different than production setup, so this is
> a good way to override settings in a dev setup. Probably most solid when
> scripted.
>
> This is exactly why Busted [1] for example has the --lpath and --cpath
> commandline options
>
> Thijs
>
> [1] http://olivinelabs.com/busted/#usage
>
>
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