Re: addpath/rmpath and PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL

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On 25 Feb 2014, at 11:17, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

> Yes, it is explained in the manual in the section that describes packages.
> 
> But 
> 
> 1) there is no mention, in the section of the manual you're referring to, of 
> the fact that this behaviour is automatically achieved by the functions 
> addpath/rmpath (it is not obvious that "pkg load ..." implies a call to 
> rmpath, for instance),
> 
> 2) this appears to be in fact a general behaviour of addpath/rmpath, even 
> outside the world of packages,
> 
> 3) and there is no mention of this behaviour of addpath/rmpath if you type 
> "help addpath" or "help rmpath".
> 
> If you confirm that this is indeed the intended behaviour of addpath/rmpath, 
> even outside packages, then I can prepare a patch for the documentation of 
> these functions in libinterp/corefcn/load-path.cc.


the PKG_ADD file is sourced whenever the directory that contains it is added to 
the path.
if you have mydir/PKG_ADD and you start Octave from within mydir, PKG_ADD will 
be sourced at startup.
this is not handled by "pkg"

> @++
> Julien

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