Re: package manager patch + problem

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> | The other disadvantage is that it is ugly.
> | 
> | The documentation for file_in_loadpath says it
> | returns the absolute path, and testing on
> | octave 2.1.69 OS X supports this.
>
> I think that using file_in_loadpath can cause some confusion if there
> are multiple functions with the same name in the loadpath.
>
> jwe
>
>   
That might be addressed with something like

autoload("glog",file_in_loadpath("gf.oct")[1]);

In any case we should decide on one way of doing it and it appears that
"which" isn't the right way due to the issue of unloading DLL's under
windows..

Regards
David


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