[Bro-Dev] Script reorg proposal
Matthias Vallentin
vallentin at icir.org
Tue Aug 2 07:04:15 PDT 2011
> I don't think intentional script overshadowing is a use-case that will
> work as nicely as you want it to if, after the reorganization, most
> scripts are still as part of a script "package" and referred to
> internally by a relative path. e.g. the "base/foo/" package might
> have a "base/foo/bar.bro" script that's loaded internally via its
> "__load__.bro" that does "@load ./bar". That means you should never
> be able to overshadow that bar.bro.
Sorry, I'm not sure if I get it. Are you saying that the "@load ./bar"
directive in __load__.bro is problematic, because, if we search in $HOME
before the current directory, the wrong bar.bro (in the users home
directory) is picked rather than the one in base/foo?
Matthias
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