Re: package autoload

[LachlanA]

bpabbott wrote
>> On Apr 15, 2016, at 07:47, Juan Pablo Carbajal <

> ajuanpi+dev@

> > wrote:
>> 
>> Toolboxes in matlab do not autoload
> 
> I've been using Matlab since 1990. I don't use many toolboxes, but none of
> the toolboxes I have used require loading (optimization, for example).
> 
> Afaik, loading a toolbox is as simple as placing it in the path.
> 
> Ben

I think you are correct, Ben.  However, from what I gather, "loading" an
Octave package is also simply adding it to the path.  Carnë explained on
Tracker that we don't always want all the installed packages in the path
because some conflict with each other, and some overload built-in functions.

My personal belief is that the __unimplemented__ function, which currently
tells us which package we should load, should just load the package and
continue (unless the same function is implemented in multiple packages, in
which case it should list all of those packages and give an error).

That would most closely emulate the Matlab experience, while avoiding the
problems Carnë described.

Cheers,
Lachlan



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