Re: What is the default path, where is the startup file?

[Matthias Brennwald]

On 11.12.2006, at 10:31, David Bateman wrote:

> Matthias Brennwald wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I intend to make some of my Octave/Matlab code available to the GNU
> > project. GNU requires that every GNU package comes with a configure
> > script. The configure script should move (install) my program files to
> > a place where Octave or Matlab programs belong, which highly depends 
> > on
> > the users setup. Also, the configure script should probably add the
> > path to the file to the startup file. Therefore:
> >
> > * How can the configure script know if the user prefers Octave or
> > Matlab, or which of the two is installed on the machine?
> > * What is a good default path to install the program files?
> > * How can the configure script know where Octave or Matlab look for
> > program files?
> > * How can the configure script know where the startup file (either
> > .octaverc or startup.m) are?
> >
> > Thanks for any suggestions,
> > Matthias
> Use the octave package manager for this.. Details are currently 
> available at
>
> http://octave.dbateman.org/developers.html
>
> particular if you want octave-forge to host your package...

No offense, but there are a few problems with this solution:

* It relies on octave forge, but I haven't been able to install / 
compile that on my machine. I don't want to limit the user base of my 
work just because octave forge is a little (too) difficult to install.
* It hides my work away from the Matlab world. I don't want to take 
away the users ability to choose between Octave and Matlab.

Matthias