--- Mar 8/12/09, James R. Phillips ha scritto: > Hi, > > After installing both octave 3.2.3-1 and octave-forge > 20090607-2, the functions in the various octave-forge > packages are not automatically available within octave. > > Adding a line such as "pkg load foo" in ~/.octaverc is a > workaround that makes the functions in octave-forge > package foo available to an individual user. **This should > probably be documented in /usr/share/doc/octave-forge.** > > As an alternative. the file > /usr/share/octave/3.2.3/m/startup/octaverc could be patched > to load all functions in /usr/share/octave/packages and > /usr/lib/octave/packages on startup. This would be effective > for all users. > > Thanks Marco for the all the good packaging work with > octave. > > Regards > > Jim Phillips
Hi Jim, the forge packages are NOT automatically loaded by my choice. Not all the packages are of the same quality and some break/modify some functionality on the core, so I prefer that if you need any specific package you should load it by yourself. Regards Marco -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
