Re: scripts in private directories?

[John W. Eaton]

On 11/23/19 12:43 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 11/22/19 3:39 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 11:48:35 -0800, Rik wrote:
> > > Scripts, effectively a laundry list of commands, don't seem like an 
> > > object
> > > that would regularly be put in a library of functions.  Instead, they 
> > > seem
> > > like a top-level, user-sort of object that calls functions.
> >
> > Right, that's my opinion also. I tend to use function files for
> > everything. It wouldn't even occur to me to write a script in a private
> > directory. So it would be good to have a definitive answer for users and
> > packages that are impacted by this change in Octave 6, even if the
> > answer is "yes, that error is correct, use functions, not scripts".
>
> Scripts are sometimes used like include files so that common variable 
> definitions can be shared among multiple function or script files.  So I 
> think the private directory scoping rules should also work for them. 
> I'll take a look and see what needs to be done.

I pushed the following changeset:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/7a45100a40c4

Does this fix the problem for you?

Thanks,

jwe