Subject: bug#44662: Lua search paths

From: raingloom <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2021 21:29:49 +0100

On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 10:28:03 +0100
zimoun <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 19:24, raingloom <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > I have a very WIP branch adding search paths to Lua.
> > https://git.sr.ht/~raingloom/guix-source/tree/raingloom/lua
> >
> > The problem is that Lua uses a different path format compared to
> > most packages. Instead of a list of directories, it is a list of
> > path patterns, each potentially containing a question mark ('?'),
> > which gets substituted for the module being searched.  
> 
> From my understanding, it is a duplicate to
> <<http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/25425>.  Does it make sense to
> merge them?
> 
> 
> All the best,
> simon

Yup, a merge seems to be in order.