I have several folders of Modules and Scripts in a blank place file, which I use in all my projects and a few plugins. Problem is, some may break over time, or I may optimize them, or modify them for some other reason. This means my “master copies” are more up-to-date than scripts throughout all my plugins and places, and I have no easy way to tell what is old and what is new.
Yes, I could upload these scripts and require them from there so they’re always up-to-date, but it’s a pain/difficult to remember to keep the online copy updated along with my local copy, and it’s not always desirable/possible to have the delay while the script is being required from the web.
I could also include a version number in my scripts, but I’ve tried that before and I forget too often to update this number.
We’re all aware of the “Date Modified” or “Date Updated” properties our documents have. It would be extremely helpful if scripts had such a read-only property as well. Whenever you modify the script’s name or source this property would behave as expected, changing to reflect the current time and date.
That way I could tell at a glance if a script is outdated. I’d probably make a plugin that scans a game’s directory for my scripts, and if the timestamp is too old, replace it with my updated copy.
# to build
lua build.lua build path/to/source
# to clean
lua build.lua clean path/to/built/models
Right now there’s a little bit hard-coded (the location for ‘built’ code, which is in ‘./build/’) but for the most part it should be fairly modular and easy to edit.
Also, you can expand ‘build variables’ within the code using %variableName% within your code, and then define it as an environment variable before running the script. However, it has not been tested completely and may break with things like %% in patterns, or the percent sign in general.
Awesome! I brought it up in the first place because I happen to be working on a related project. I’ll probably make a post about it in the coming weeks.
I may be wrong, but I do not think LinkedSource works across places – if it did then it would be beautiful, but like DataStore I believe it is universe specific which is incredibly annoying.
Except anyone can require it into their places then (not just you) and you have to worry about someone finding a loophole in your attempt to prevent other games from using it and stealing your code
You can only require a module if it’s named MainModule, which enables everyone to require it. You can use InsertService to insert it and require it though, which is what I imagine you’re referring to. When you said require my brain immediately went to MainModule and forgot about InsertService – oops!
How are you requiring your Module in a way that anyone can access it? Are you sure it’s not listed as a Free Model? For me, both require(assetId) and InsertService return 409 errors if it isn’t the creator’s account.
