Re: package.searcher modification for lua modules

[Coda Highland <chighland@...>]

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Jerome Vuarand
<jerome.vuarand@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2015-09-22 8:02 GMT+01:00 Sean Conner <sean@conman.org>:
>> [1]     Contrary to what Windows people may believe, Windows can support
>>         paths with '/'.  No, really!  It can.  It has since MS-DOS 2.0
>>         (1982).  It's only the shell, COMMAND.COM that can't [2]
>>
>> [2]     And it can if you call a MS-DOS function to change the option
>>         character from '/' to '-'.
>
> That's not accurate. The cmd.exe shell can deal with slashes in paths
> even without replacing the options prefix, for example:
>
> cd /D C:/
> cd /Users/yourusername
>
> Where slashes break things is in a myriad of obscure failure points
> scattered in the programs (MS & 3rd-party) and even some win32 APIs.
> So yeah, Windows supports forward slashes just as well as Unix
> supports spaces in paths: with many pitfalls.
>

cmd.exe is not COMMAND.COM.

/s/ Adam