From bug-request at octave dot org Fri Apr 14 13:09:45 2006
Subject: Re: addpath, rmpath, savepath
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: "Robert S. Weigel" <rweigel at gmu dot edu>
Cc: bug at octave dot org
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:09:41 -0400

On 14-Apr-2006, Robert S. Weigel wrote:

| Given the number of things that would need to be changed simultaneously for 
| Matlab compatability I think it is best to leave things as they are.  Both 
| the Matlab compatable and existing functions do unexpected things, and I 
| don't have a strong reason to prefer Matlab compatability over backward 
| compatability for users of the addpath/rmpath functions that were previously 
| in octave-forge.

In this case, I'm not worried about backward compatibility, so I think
it would be best to work toward making these functions behave like
their counterparts in Matlab.

| I can only suggest that it may help users if a note is added to the help of 
| addpath and rmpath. For what it is worth, diffs for this are attached. 

Generally, I would rather fix bugs/incompatibilities that document
them.

Thanks,

jwe



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