worldmods/libmthelpers

libmthelpers

Misc. helper routines for minetest mods

When experimenting with in-game code using the luacmd mod, I noticed that there were fragments of code that kept popping up everywhere. I therefore decided to write them in a persistent location instead... and threw them in this mod.

This mod therefore contains a bunch of fairly small boilerplate functions for things I typed frequently. Because of their size, I'm not really going to bother documenting them. Their function is fairly obvious in most cases; use the source luke for it cannot lie. Access to the table of functions is performed via modns; see the relevant mod in this mod's parent modpack repository.

Why is init.lua empty!?

modns handles all loading of this mod. See the lib/com/github/thetaepsilon/minetest directory; The file "libmthelpers.lua" serves as the top-level package interface, and the files within the libmthelpers/ directory and sub-directories are the sub-packages. modns exports the mtrequire() function in global scope; this library resolves to "com.github.thetaepsilon.minetest.libmthelpers", and it's modules as "*snip*.libmthelpers.submodulename". To access this library, it is sufficient to do something like

local libmthelpers = mtrequire(libpath)