From bf0802402d52f0ca78885f579b91014a859939d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: isaacs Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:18:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Note that require.paths is gone in 0.5 Rather than say it "may disappear", let's just be clear that it *has* disappeared, and exactly how long it'll be supported for. --- doc/api/modules.markdown | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/api/modules.markdown b/doc/api/modules.markdown index 59f545e8a1e..080630696ac 100644 --- a/doc/api/modules.markdown +++ b/doc/api/modules.markdown @@ -248,9 +248,10 @@ Loading from the `require.paths` locations is only performed if the module could not be found using the `node_modules` algorithm above. Global modules are lower priority than bundled dependencies. -#### **Note:** Please Avoid Modifying `require.paths` +#### **Note:** Please Avoid Using `require.paths` -`require.paths` may disappear in a future release. +`require.paths` will only be supported through the end of the v0.4 +stable branch. It is removed from node as of v0.5. While it seemed like a good idea at the time, and enabled a lot of useful experimentation, in practice a mutable `require.paths` list is