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Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?
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Thomas Weber |
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Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge? |
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Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:55:08 +0200 |
Am Mittwoch, den 27.08.2008, 11:41 -0400 schrieb John W. Eaton:
> On 27-Aug-2008, Thomas Weber wrote:
>
> | If you don't want that behaviour, don't install the package. The
> | package's documentation is totally clear about the package's effects.
>
> I must have missed the revolution. When did people start reading
> documentation?
Hey, Octave ships a news() function; you must have some hope that it is
actually used.
> | > Perhaps Octave should warn about duplicate functions in the load-path?
> |
> | Why? Sorry,
>
> Some people might like to know that they are about to shoot themselves
> in the foot.
By noting that they are shadowing some functions? If you don't want
that, put packages at the end of the loadpath (no idea where they are
currently).
> | but if people install stuff blindly, the only sensible
> | resolution is shipping brain-1.0.0.
>
> If? I think the proper word is "when". So where can I find the
> brain-1.0.0 package?
Look in the documentation :)
Okay, seriously: is it really worth the effort to check the loadpath for
shadowed stuff? I actually think that's not an easy task: what if a
package shadows another package? The best way to check is probably when
loading packages, but this will increase startup time.
Thomas
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, (continued)
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Thomas Weber, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Bill Denney, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, John W. Eaton, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Levente Torok, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, John W. Eaton, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Jaroslav Hajek, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, John W. Eaton, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, David Bateman, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?,
Thomas Weber <=
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, David Bateman, 2008/08/27
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Bill Denney, 2008/08/28
- Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, David Bateman, 2008/08/27
Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Benjamin Lindner, 2008/08/26
Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Thomas Weber, 2008/08/27
Re: Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?, Jonathan Stickel, 2008/08/27