Re: Autoloading of toolboxes?

[John W. Eaton]

On 29-Jan-2007, David Bateman wrote:

| Bill Denney wrote:
| > 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
| >
| I think more appropriate syntax for this would be
| 
| pkg manual pkgname
| pkg auto pkgname
| 
| and then have
| 
| ## PKG_ADD: pkg("load","auto");
| 
| in pkg.m to load only the packages marked as auto. This makes sense to
| me, who wants to implement it :-)

Maybe if the package is installed in a site-wide directory, pkg should
ask the installer whether the package should be autoloaded for all
users?

jwe