Re: package manager patch + problem

[John W. Eaton]

On  2-Mar-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > The autoload function is supposed to link a function name to a
| > specific file.  The name of the file should not depend on searching
| > the loadpath.
| 
| Then in that case the only thing that makes sense is what you did for
| the autoloads in octave itself as the call to mfilename() will return
| the name of the PKG_ADD file in which the function we want to link to is
| located. There really is no other choice.

OK, then I think autoload should probably produce a warning if the
second argument is not absolute file name.

jwe