Re: educate after "pkg install"

[Carnë Draug]

On 16 March 2015 at 21:51, Colin Macdonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 15/03/15 17:22, Carnë Draug wrote:
>> The problem was that the symbolic package was not being listed there.  It
>> should be fixed now [1]:
>>
>> [1] http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/fc6c87e254bf
>
> Where did you get that list?  "symbolic" does not implement a lot of
> those things...
>

Those lists are what the Matlab toolboxes with the same name provide.
If you call one of those functions, it tells you to load the package.
If the package is already loaded it tells you that the function has not
yet been implemented.

We can't really have a hardcoded list of all functions and packages, so
we have the ones that are needed for Matlab compatibility. This seems
enough to catch most unawary users.  It also serves another purpose.
Many users are not aware that they are using Matlab toolboxes, that these
are a separate product so they might not even know which packages they
actually need.

Carnë