From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Dec 27 00:16:49 2002
Subject: Re: changes to path searching
From: Jskud at jskud dot com
To: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
CC: octave-maintainers at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 22:16:46 -0800

> Octave now searches for .oct or .m files (in that order) in each
> directory in the path.
> ...
> Comments?

Sounds like a good choice -- improved functionality (can now override an
.oct file with an .m file), improved compatability (with MATLAB, and
with the way search works for PATH too) are a plus; potential backward
incompatability and delaying a standard version of kpathsearch seem like
small costs/risks, and worth taking.  

Thanks for creating and continuing to move Octave forward, John.  /Jskud