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Re: package manager patch + problem
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: package manager patch + problem |
Date: |
Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:40:10 -0500 |
On 2-Mar-2007, David Bateman wrote:
| John W. Eaton wrote:
| > The autoload function is supposed to link a function name to a
| > specific file. The name of the file should not depend on searching
| > the loadpath.
|
| Then in that case the only thing that makes sense is what you did for
| the autoloads in octave itself as the call to mfilename() will return
| the name of the PKG_ADD file in which the function we want to link to is
| located. There really is no other choice.
OK, then I think autoload should probably produce a warning if the
second argument is not absolute file name.
jwe