[tex-live] Where do I put lua scripts for a package?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2011-04-25 at 12:29:19 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

 > Am Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:36:42 +0200 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
 > 
 > > On 2011-04-24 at 18:27:02 +0200, Christophe Jorssen wrote:
 > > 
 > >  > Hello all,
 > >  > 
 > >  > In the cvs version of pgf, a new library uses some lua scripts
 > >  > designed to work with luatex. I'd like to know in which directory lua
 > >  > scripts should be put (for a later update of the pgf-cvs bundle to
 > >  > tlcontrib).
 > >  > 
 > >  > For now they are located in
 > >  > 
 > >  > /texmf/generic/pgf/libraries/name_of_the_library/lua/
 > >  > 
 > >  > AFAIU the TDS documentation, this should rather be
 > >  > 
 > >  > /texmf/scripts/pgf/libraries/name_of_the_library/
 > >  > 
 > >  > Can somebody confirm?
 > > 
 > > This is an excerpt of texmf.cnf in TL-2010:
 > > -------------------------------------------------------
 > > % Lua needs to look in TEXINPUTS for lua scripts distributed with packages.
 > > LUAINPUTS = .;$TEXMF/scripts/{$progname,$engine,}/{lua,}//;$TEXINPUTS
 > > -------------------------------------------------------
 > > 
 > > You can also look where the ConTeXt Lua scripts are.  I think that
 > > 
 > >   $TEXMF/scripts/pgf/
 > > 
 > > is a good choice.
 > 
 > 
 > I'm not sure. "scripts" is certainly the right place for lua file
 > connected with an executable, e.g. mkluatexfontdb.lua /
 > mkluatexfontdb.exe. 
 > 
 > But the majority of package puts their lua-files in "tex". Look e.g.
 > a luaotfload or lualibs. And at my opinion this make sense. These
 > lua-files are similar to the various .tex files e.g. pgf inputs.

In this case kpathsea falls back to $TEXINPUTS and has to scan the
whole $TEXMF/tex trees, which is rather inefficient and not desirable.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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