Re: package manager patch + problem

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Michael,

I've updated the octave-forge PKG_ADD files to use the same technique as
octave to file the file to load. As Paul says its a bit ugly, but at
least it will always find the function in the same directory as the
PKG_ADD file, rather than be dependent on the users path.. Perhaps we
should make a helper function to hide some of this mess..

Can you check and see if this helps with your pkg uninstall issue?

Regards
David

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