Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> I don't think it is a good idea to load all packages by default.  That
> Octave Forge was typically packaged and distributed this way is
> something that I've never really liked, and was the reason I wanted to
> have a package system that would make it easy to install add-ons in
> smaller chunks.
>
> jwe
>
>   
However, its not the behavior someone coming from the matlab world will
expect and we will be punished for the current behavior... The
distinction between manually and autoloaded packages is a compromise
that attempts to address this. I'd suggest that only the packages in
main/ by autoloaded.

Regards
David

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