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Re: symlink not supported ?

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Oh god, it has started. Quick, everyone leave before the thread explodes with an interesting but off-topic discussion!
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Re: symlink not supported ?

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anjo wrote:
BlackBulletIV wrote:As for sandboxing, I personally think that folders and merged executables should have full rights, only to have their rights governed by the OS. This would make LOVE a good game development platform. But when it comes to a .love, sandboxing should be started; this makes LOVE a good game platform.
*downloads sandboxed .love*
*merges .love into executable*
:joker:
I don't see why the user would want to turn off sandboxing themselves.

But anyway, where were we... yes, symlinks... symlinks. Interesting members of society they are :P.
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Re: symlink not supported ?

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Robin wrote:Oh god, it has started. Quick, everyone leave before the thread explodes with an interesting but off-topic discussion!
You're right. I don't want security for now, I just want symlink support :P
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TsT wrote:You're right. I don't want security for now, I just want symlink support :P
What I use, it's a bit of a hack:

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package.path = package.path .. ";../common/?.lua"
(At the start of main.lua.)

Then you can place the shared libs in ../common/. You then only need to remember to copy the common/ directory into the game dir when distributing your game.
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Re: symlink not supported ?

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Robin wrote:What I use, it's a bit of a hack:

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package.path = package.path .. ";../common/?.lua"
Oh it seems a good and beautiful workaround ! Thanks Robin :awesome:
Robin wrote:You then only need to remember to copy the common/ directory into the game dir when distributing your game.
This is for mainly for development. The release process is different and you can not forget so much libs ;)
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Re: symlink not supported ?

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Robin wrote:
TsT wrote:You're right. I don't want security for now, I just want symlink support :P
What I use, it's a bit of a hack:

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package.path = package.path .. ";../common/?.lua"
(At the start of main.lua.)

Then you can place the shared libs in ../common/. You then only need to remember to copy the common/ directory into the game dir when distributing your game.
Hey that's a pretty cool hack!
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