premake / premake/premake-core
Modules '_preload.lua' only executed for embedded modules
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Description
This has caught me by surprise, but it looks like modules _preload.lua is only called for built-in embedded modules in _premake_main.lua:preloadModules.
It's a little bit weird, I would expect _preload.lua to be called when requiring any module, embedded or not. In fact, I can see that some modules have some hacks inside to workaround this issue.
Is this by design?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in _premake_main.lua at preloadModules and trace how embedded and non-embedded modules are loaded. Review the module hacks mentioned in the issue and determine whether preload behavior should be unified; done means the intended behavior is decided and its affected module-loading cases are covered.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- lua
- Domain
- build-system
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100