hs.spoons.use() does not respect package.path

[von]

hs.loadSpoons() seems to respect package.path and allow me to specify alternate locations for loading Spoons. hs.spoons.use() does not seem to respect package.path. I'm not sure which behavior is intended as correct, but respecting package.path would be my preference.

Example below showing ability to load Contexts spoon from the MySpoons/ directory with hs.loadSpoon() but not hs.spoons.use().

> hs.inspect(package.path)
"/Users/von/.hammerspoon/?.lua;/Users/von/.hammerspoon/?/init.lua;/Users/von/.hammerspoon/Spoons/?.spoon/init.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/?.lua;/usr/local/share/lua/5.3/?/init.lua;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/?.lua;/usr/local/lib/lua/5.3/?/init.lua;./?.lua;./?/init.lua;/Applications/Hammerspoon.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/?.lua;/Applications/Hammerspoon.app/Contents/Resources/extensions/?/init.lua;/Users/von/.hammerspoon/lib/?.lua;/Users/von/.hammerspoon/MySpoons/?.spoon/init.lua"

> hs.loadSpoon("Contexts")
2020-08-30 13:43:38: -- Loading Spoon: Contexts
table: 0x600001681dc0

> hs.spoons.use("Contexts")
2020-08-30 13:43:52: ********
2020-08-30 13:43:52: 13:43:52 ERROR:    spoons: Spoon Contexts is not installed - please install it and try again.
2020-08-30 13:43:52: ********
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BTW, I use an alternate directory to keep Spoons I'm developing under version control instead and separate from Spoons installed by SpoonInstaller, which simplifies my maintenance of .gitignore

[Rhys-T]

This seems to be the same issue as #2887 - hs.spoons.use is using hs.spoons.list to decide if a spoon exists. I've posted the workaround I'm using over there.