Re: [OctDev] Providing alternative functions

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On 25 Aug 2003 at 18:41, Teemu Ikonen wrote:

> The modifications I made to the installation scripts are general, so that
> any m-files in directory extra/<package>/alternatives are installed to 
> /usr/share/octave/<version>/site/octave-forge-alternatives/m/<package>
> and oct-files to
> /usr/lib/octave/<version>/site/octave-forge-alternatives/oct/<arch>/<package> 

So for example, Alois could put a select few of his NaN toolbox 
functions into alternatives (those that treat NaN as NA) and the NaN
toolbox could then be installed by default?  Sounds great!

I'm surprised, though, that all the site package tree is not on the 
default load path.

- Paul