Re: Octave/Win32 update

[Michael Goffioul]

John W. Eaton a écrit :
> On 29-Jan-2007, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | All of the packages that replace existing functionality of octave are in
> | extra/. These functions are disabled by default at the install stage. I
> | didn't check but I believe there is bubble help on each of the install
> | menu items and if the information you request isn't already there, then
> | it shouldn't be hard to add it..
>
> OK.
>
> I think people need to understand what they are doing when they
> install a package like NaN.  That package may provide the behavior
> that they want, but it replaces a number of core functions in Octave
> with and so could produce surprising results.
>   

As John stated, extra/ packages are not installed by default. Moreover, 
octave-forge path
is appended to normal load-path, such that it doesn't shadow any normal 
octave function.
(I don't know if it's good for all those packages, but I'm not really 
aware of what's exactly
in those package, so I choose what I considered to be the safest case).

Michael.