From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Wed Jan  7 15:55:04 2004
Subject: path in Octave 2.1.52 ?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart dot Vandewoestyne at pandora dot be>
Cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 15:54:48 -0600

On  7-Jan-2004, Bart Vandewoestyne <Bart dot Vandewoestyne at pandora dot be> wrote:

| Is the 'path' command broken in Octave 2.1.52 ?
| 
| octave:2> path("/usr/local")
| ans = /usr/local
| octave:3> path
| 
| LOADPATH contains the following directories:
| 
|    .
|    /usr/lib/octave/2.1.52/site/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu//
|    /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/api-v3/i386-pc-linux-gnu//
|    /usr/lib/octave/site/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu//
|    /usr/share/octave/2.1.52/site/m//
|    /usr/share/octave/site/api-v3/m//
|    /usr/share/octave/site/m//
|    /usr/lib/octave/2.1.52/oct/i386-pc-linux-gnu//
|    /usr/share/octave/2.1.52/m//

Yes, it is always printing out DEFAULT_LOADPATH, which is definitely
the wrong thing to do.

I've committed some changes that will make Octave's path work more
like the one in the other leading brand.  Now it will return a path
with DEFAULT_LOADPATH appropriately substituted.  So if you start with
LOADPATH == ":" (the default) then do something like

  path (path, "~/octave")

LOADPATH will be replaced with the contents of DEFAULT_LOADPATH
followed by "~/octave".  Does that seem reasonable, and closer to what
Matlab users would expect?

Should it also expand any trailing // found in the elements?

jwe



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