Merging Octave and Octave-Forge?

[David Bateman]

Thomas Weber wrote:
> 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). 
>   

The nan package is supposed to shadow the Octave functions and so the 
default behavior of pkg was decide last year to be to add them at the 
front of the load path.


> 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.
>   
In fact the build process for the octave-forge web pages in fact 
identifies all of the shadowed functions.. If its an issue I suppose 
they might be published.

D.



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