Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[Michael Creel]

Getting the "best" functionality into the hands of the end users, without them 
having to know all of the options, should be the priority. The warnings  and 
detailed information should be easily accessible to developers and more advanced 
users, but I think that they should not be turned on by default. Using Octave is 
a bit complicated at the moment, with the different verions, o-f not always 
ready to use with various versions, etc. I think usability needs some attention 
in general, and that the issue of package loading should be approached with 
usability, for the average user, as the first priority.

From the perspective of making things simpler, I would suggest releasing ver. 
3.0 as soon as possible, along with o-f.  As long as the computations are 
correct, it's good enough to be released. Added features can go into the stable 
release, following the linux kernel model, or can be put into a future 
development version. It would be a nice change to have the stable release as the 
recommended version :-)