Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[David Bateman]

Bill Denney wrote:
> David Bateman wrote:
>> Michael Creel wrote:
>>  
>>> What's the advantage of not automatically loading whatever is
>>> available?
>>>     
>> It might not be desirable to load octplot, tsa etc automatically as they
>> overload existing functionality..
>>   
> We could assume that people would only install packages that they
> always wanted loaded (not a perfect assumption by any means).  There
> could be another package option that would have functionality like:
>
> pkg load pkgname manual
>
> vs.
>
> pkg load pkgname auto
>
> Where it would touch or remove a file named PKG_AUTOLOAD in the
> package's directory whose existence would control auto loading.  All
> packages would be set to autoload by default and people could easily
> turn off the auto loading.  That sounds like it's the most flexible
> and simple (from a user's point of view at least) to me.
>
> Bill
>
I think more appropriate syntax for this would be

pkg manual pkgname
pkg auto pkgname

and then have

## PKG_ADD: pkg("load","auto");

in pkg.m to load only the packages marked as auto. This makes sense to
me, who wants to implement it :-)

Regards
David


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