Re: Suggestion: startup.d subdirectory for use by octaverc

[James R. Phillips]

--- Paul Kienzle  wrote:

> We already have this---through a PKG_ADD file in your package directory 
> and all octave commands therein will be run.  IIRC, PKG_DEL is run when 
> the directory is removed from the path.

Hmm.  No documentation that I can find within octave on this.  Did find this
comment in list archives:

http://www.octave.org/octave-lists/archive/octave-maintainers.2002/msg00175.html

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There is also some new code for declaring commands at startup time.
Now when a directory is added to the LOAADPATH, Octave looks for a
file called PKG_ADD in the directory, and if it is present, reads and
executes commands from it.
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OK.  But actually, what I had in mind was exactly the issue of adding a
directory to the LOADPATH, which is typically done in octaverc, and must be
done before PKG_ADD is of any assistance.  Scripts to do this could be put in a
startup.d directory with octaverc.  They could then be added or deleted from
the subdirectory as necessary, in concert with package addition or deletion,
and without requiring edits of octaverc.