LÖVE 0.8.0 Released

[tomriddle]

AWESOME! Thanks for the continued development on this
Will there ever be a Canvas/JS/HTML port of LOVE? Perhaps a wrapper of some sort?
Bascially this has superseded GameMaker for me. Not sure if any of you guys ever used it, but I started using GameMaker to make (crappy) games back when I was 12. Fun times.

[Elena5]

What are your current/future plans on Löve?

[markovacosta]

thank you for ensuring that Love continues with the latest upgrades and software development. Hope we have a massive adverts for Love so other users can also benefit from LOVE ... but on second thought, I might not want to share LOVE at all

[ston]

Thanks love development team!

I have a quick question about paths. My main.lua typically brings in other local-directory .lua files, e.g. require "somefile.lua" but these files cannot now be found (worked fine in the previous version). How do I tell love 0.8.0 to search the local directory for these files?

TIA

[bartbes]

That's because your syntax for require is wrong, if you have a file "some/file.lua", you do require("some.file").

[ston]

That's because your syntax for require is wrong, if you have a file "some/file.lua", you do require("some.file").

ty, dropping the .lua extension works OK.

Is this a change in love or in lua do you know? Passing the full filenames (i.e. including the file extension) to require always worked before now.

[Boolsheet]

Passing the full filenames (i.e. including the file extension) to require always worked before now.

This was the behaviour of the LÖVE package loader before 0.8.0. It was changed to mirror the behaviour of Lua itself where, by default, it searches for the appropriate extension itself.

You can change this behaviour for Lua with the global variable package.path, but the LÖVE loader has a hardcoded pattern that you cannot change.

And to clarify why there's a LÖVE loader: Lua searches in some specific library paths (depending on the OS) and the working directory. The LÖVE loader searches in the game directory/archive and save directory.

[ston]

Thanks Boolsheet, that's very informative :-)

I might not have noticed this before as I've probably only used require when writing lua code to run in love. Any 'lua only' code I've written has been ad-hoc snippets used to solve problems for love development (or to help me learn the language).

[elevitate]

Hey, was looking for an 'introduce yourself' kind of thread, this seems a good bet. My avatar took a full minute of back-breaking effort - I'll make a better one when I have the time!

Looking forward to getting to grips with Love.

edit: Oops, this was supposed to be in the Avatars thread. What a start...

[davei1442d]

Cool Thanks!

I hope it gets updated more often. And with more user requested features.