Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[David Bateman]

Michael Creel wrote:
>
> I haven't had a good look at o-f since the switch to the new package
> system, since I'm tied to 2.1.x for the moment, so my apologies in
> advance if what I say is silly. Packages may not really have a single
> maintainer, and it may be doubtful which package to put a given
> function into. So it may not be clear to everyone just which package
> supplies which functions, and people might miss finding useful stuff
> if they have to know the package/function mapping. Also, suppose
> someone is using a distro that supplies a bunch of packages by default
> whenever Octave is installed. What's the advantage of not
> automatically loading whatever is available?
>
> M.
>
It might not be desirable to load octplot, tsa etc automatically as they
overload existing functionality..

D.

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