cryptic error when shard_include can't load a file

[eronoobos]

I think that's what the error message is telling me:

[f=-000001] <SkirmishAI: Shard git (team 0)>: ...\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\preload/globals.lua:31: loop or previous error loading module 'taskqueuebehaviour'
stack traceback:
    [C]: ?
    [C]: ?
    [C]: in function 'require'
    ...\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\preload/globals.lua:31: in function 'shard_include'
    ...es\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\BA\behaviours.lua:1: in main chunk
    [C]: in function 'require'
    ...\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\preload/globals.lua:31: in function 'shard_include'
    ...Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\behaviourfactory.lua:4: in main chunk
    [C]: in function 'require'
    ...\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\preload/globals.lua:31: in function 'shard_include'
    ...ents\My Games\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\ai.lua:4: in main chunk

This is the result of my attempt to test the compatibility of my fork https://github.com/eronoobos/Shard with the Spring Skirmish AI library.

[tomjn]

hmmm how do you know it's recursing? It's loading a file that immediatley loads another file, the problem was that it couldn't be found for whatever reason

[eronoobos]

Ahh, okay, that's what it means. Why "loop"? And why "previous error"?

If taskqueuebehaviour isn't found, that's odd, because it's in both the game subdirectory and the ai directory.

[eronoobos]

ahhhh, i see, i just had to send the error of pcall to the console when it fails. the file is found, but can't be loaded for reasons within the code within the file:

[f=-000001] <SkirmishAI: Shard git (team 0)>: require can't load BA/commonfunctions error: ...ring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\BA/commonfunctions.lua:39: attempt to index global 'ai' (a nil value)
[f=-000001] <SkirmishAI: Shard git (team 0)>: require can't load commonfunctions error: ...ring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\BA\commonfunctions.lua:39: attempt to index global 'ai' (a nil value)
[f=-000001] <SkirmishAI: Shard git (team 0)>: require can't load BA/taskqueues error: ...es\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\BA/taskqueues.lua:17: attempt to index global 'game' (a nil value)
[f=-000001] <SkirmishAI: Shard git (team 0)>: require can't load taskqueues error: ...es\Spring\AI\Skirmish\Shard\git\ai\BA\taskqueues.lua:17: attempt to index global 'game' (a nil value)

(aka my BA config's fault)

[tomjn]

Ah, we should work that into the shard_include function so that it's less cryptic :) Good catch!

[eronoobos]

https://github.com/eronoobos/Shard/commit/fa9b25e9252243004fe26b5226430f0b35c90ade whenever i can resolve the incompatibility, these changes might make it to this repo :-P