[Bro-Dev] script loading changes

[Robin Sommer]

Nice summary, thanks!

Two additional thoughts:

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 17:26 -0500, you wrote:

> 1) When an @load or command line argument relies on BROPATH to search for
>    the script/package, directory separator characters (i.e. '/') must be
>    replaced with dots ('.').

Do we want to say "may" instead of "must"? So both versions would be
acceptable. If we @load a.b.c and don't find that file literally, we
try a/b/c. I think that would help help with (2) as well.

> 3) A new "@add x when y ..." directive that's an alternative to @load, and
>    can be used to conditionally load script named 'x' only when the script
>    named 'y' has already been loaded.  The evaluation of that condition is
>    postponed until after all scripts specified via @load or as command line
>    arguments have been loaded.  'x' and 'y' can be named according to either
>    (1) or (2) above.

One thing we haven't considered yet: what if "x" itself has new @loads
or @adds? Can we make that well-defined?

Robin

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