Finally working on this again

-Plugin-/testPlugin1.lua

@@ -1,7 +1,4 @@
-plugin.init("PluginEpic") -- creates a folder that the plug in can use for saving data, and sets up certain data so some plug-in functions can work
 plugin.OnPreload(function()
-	canRun = plugin.request("require",true)
-	if not canRun then return nil,"Missing features that are required for this plugin to work!" end
 	local self = plugin.expose() -- exposes this plugins namespace that is public between all plugins
 	self.name = ""
 	self.age = 0

-Plugin-/testPlugin2.lua

@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
--- plugin.init("superPlugin")
 plugin.OnLoaded(function()
 	print(PLUGIN_NAME.." has been loaded!")
-	local epic = plugin.getPluginRef("PluginEpic")
+	local epic = plugin.getPluginRef("testPlugin1")
 	epic.newPerson("Ryan",22,"male")
 	print(epic.getName())
 	local list = plugin.getPluginList()
+	for i,v in pairs(list) do
+		print(i,v)
+	end
+	if plugin.fileExists("test.dat") then
+		print("File contents Start:")
+		local file = plugin.openFile("test.dat")
+		io.write(file:getData())
+		io.write("File contents End\n")
+	else
+		print("no has")
+		local file = plugin.openFreshFile("test.dat")
+		file:tackE("Test1\n")
+		file:tackE("Test2\n")
+		file:tackE("Test3\n")
+		file:tofile()
+	end
 end)

-Plugin-/testplugin2/test.dat

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Test1
+Test2
+Test3

pluginManager/init.lua

@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ local function _expose(tab,readonly)
 		elseif tab=="std" then
 			tab = [[_VERSION,assert,collectgarbage,error,getfenv,getmetatable,ipairs,loadstring,module,next,pairs,pcall,print,rawequal,rawget,rawset,select,setfenv,setmetatable,tonumber,tostring,type,unpack,xpcall,math,coroutine,string,table]]
 			_expose({
-				io = {io.tmpfile,io.write},
+				io = {tmpfile = io.tmpfile,write = io.write},
-				os = {os.clock,os.date,os.difftime,os.exit,os.getenv,os.remove,os.rename,os.setlocale,os.time,os.tmpname},
+				os = {clock = os.clock,date = os.date,difftime = os.difftime,getenv = os.getenv,setlocale = os.setlocale,time = os.time,tmpname = os.tmpname},
 				_G = exposed
 			},readonly)
 		end
@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ local function file_exists(name)
 	local f=io.open(name,"r")
 	if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end
 end
+local function _import(name,data)
+	__imports[name] = data
+end
 local GLOBAL = {__PluginList={},vars = {}}
 local conn = multi:newConnection(true)
 local conn2 = multi:newConnection(true)
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@ local function cleanTab(tab)
 		tab[i]=nil
 	end
 end
+local __imports = {}
 local function load_(path)
 	if not file_exists(pluginLocation..package.config:sub(1,1)..path) then return end 
 	local chunk = loadfile(pluginLocation..package.config:sub(1,1)..path)
@@ -151,14 +155,18 @@ local function load_(path)
 	local temp = {}
 	merge(temp,exposed)
 	merge(temp,{
+		import = function(name)
+			return __imports[name]
+		end,
 		plugin = {
 			version = version,
 			OnLoaded = conn,
 			OnPreload = conn3,
 			OnReboot = conn4,
-			init = function(name,version)
+			init = function(version)
+				local name = path:sub(1,-5):lower() -- Plugin name is equal to filename
 				temp["PLUGIN_NAME"]=name
-				GLOBAL[name] = {version = version}
+				GLOBAL[name] = {version = version or "1.0.0"}
 				table.insert(GLOBAL.__PluginList,name) 
 				if not dirExists(pluginLocation..package.config:sub(1,1)..name) then
 					mkDir(pluginLocation..package.config:sub(1,1)..name)
@@ -205,6 +213,10 @@ local function load_(path)
 				local t = package.config:sub(1,1)
 				os.remove(pluginLocation..t..temp["PLUGIN_NAME"]..t..path,false)
 			end,
+			fileExists = function(path)
+				local t = package.config:sub(1,1)
+				return file_exists(pluginLocation..t..temp["PLUGIN_NAME"]..t..path)
+			end,
 			setGlobal = function(var,val)
 				GLOBAL.vars[var]=val
 			end,
@@ -216,7 +228,7 @@ local function load_(path)
 			end,
 			getPluginRef = function(name)
 				local meh = {}
-				local link = GLOBAL[name]
+				local link = GLOBAL[name:lower()]
 				setmetatable(meh,{
 					__index = link -- Cannot alter a plugin's created domain but can read from it
 				})
@@ -285,6 +297,7 @@ plugin.setPluginFolder = _setPluginFolder
 plugin.setProtection =_setProtection
 plugin.expose =_expose
 plugin.load =_load
+plugin.setImport = _import
 plugin.grant = _grant
 -- plugin.reloadPlugins = _reload
 return plugin

test.lua

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-package.path = "./?/init.lua;"..package.path
+package.path = "./?/init.lua;../multiworkspace/?/init.lua;"..package.path
 local plugin = require("pluginManager")
 local multi = require("multi")
 plugin.setPluginFolder("-Plugin-") -- Creates if does not exist and sets the plugin folder where plugins will be loaded
@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ plugin.expose("std") -- string or table, std allows all non dangerious features
 plugin.expose({
 	multi = multi,
 })
-plugin.grant("testPlugin1.lua",{
-	require = require
-})
 -- "*" allows you to use _G as the enviroment
 -- setting readonly, the second argument to true makes plugins able to read from global, but not write to it.
 -- you can use a table instead of a string and put the name spaces directly that you want
@@ -21,7 +18,4 @@ plugin.grant("testPlugin1.lua",{
 ]]
 plugin.load() -- loads plugins
 print("Done loading...")
-multi:newTLoop(function()
+
---~ 	plugin.reloadPlugins()
-end,1)
-multi:mainloop()