Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[Bill Denney]

David Bateman wrote:
> Michael Creel wrote:
>   
> > What's the advantage of not automatically loading whatever is available?
> >     
> It might not be desirable to load octplot, tsa etc automatically as they
> overload existing functionality..
>   
We could assume that people would only install packages that they always 
wanted loaded (not a perfect assumption by any means).  There could be 
another package option that would have functionality like:

pkg load pkgname manual

vs.

pkg load pkgname auto

Where it would touch or remove a file named PKG_AUTOLOAD in the 
package's directory whose existence would control auto loading.  All 
packages would be set to autoload by default and people could easily 
turn off the auto loading.  That sounds like it's the most flexible and 
simple (from a user's point of view at least) to me.

Bill