RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

[Jake]

I'm beginning to see why nothing has been done along these lines before.  I
think I'll focus on ODE solvers, if anything.

-Jake 

-----Original Message-----
From: John W. Eaton [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:22 AM
To: Jake
Cc: 'Jaroslav Hajek'; 'octave-forge list'; 'Octave Maintainers List'
Subject: RE: [OctDev] automatic download of forge packages

On  7-Jun-2010, Jake wrote:

| When I do have some spare time I think I will do what one person 
| mentioned, which is make a script to download and install all extra 
| packages to create a "complete" distribution.

There are some packages in Octave Forge which we generally don't want people
to install blindly, because they overwrite core Octave functions and can
cause trouble.  So I don't think you want to install all packages.

jwe