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Re: Re: finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`

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• Subject: [mg54127] Re: [mg54096] Re: [mg54065] finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:33:42 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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I'm still at a loss here... What the installation directions for Ersek's 
RootSearch.m actually say is to create, if it's not already present, an 
Enhancements subdirectory of

   ToFileName[{$TopDirectory, "AddOns", "ExtraPackages"}]

and to put RootSearch.m there.

But I want to separate all such add-ons from the Mathematica 
$TopDirectory tree, so they can readily be preserved during updates from 
one version of Mathematica to another.

So I created a new tree under my $UserBaseDirectory, with top levels:

   FileNames[$UserBaseDirectory <> "\\*"]
{D:\Math\AddOns\AddOns, D:\Math\AddOns\Applications, 
D:\Math\AddOns\Autoload, \
D:\Math\AddOns\Documentation, D:\Math\AddOns\FrontEnd, 
D:\Math\AddOns\Kernel, \
D:\Math\AddOns\Licensing, D:\Math\AddOns\SystemFiles, D:\Math\AddOns\User}

But Mathematica does not seem to search within D:\Math\AddOns\AddOns, so 
it never finds

   D:\Math\AddOns\AddOns\ExtraPackages\Enhancements

in which I placed RootSearch.m.

Previously, I had tried, instead, to put that ExtraPackages tree at the 
top level of $UserBaseDirectory, so that:

   FileNames[$UserBaseDirectory <> "\\*"]
{D:\Math\AddOns\Applications, D:\Math\AddOns\Autoload, \
D:\Math\AddOns\Documentation, D:\Math\AddOns\ExtraPackages, \
D:\Math\AddOns\FrontEnd, D:\Math\AddOns\Kernel, D:\Math\AddOns\Licensing, \
D:\Math\AddOns\SystemFiles, D:\Math\AddOns\User}

Notice that the ExtraPackages directory was in that search path, but 
still Mathematica does not find RootSearch in response to command:

   << Enhancements`RootSearch`

The trouble seems to be a lack of parallel in the way Mathematica treats

   ToFileName[{$TopDirectory, "AddOns", "ExtraPackages"}]

and

   ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "AddOns", "ExtraPackages"}]

in that the former IS on the search path but the latter is not.



David Annetts wrote:
> Hi Murray, 
> 
> 
>>Various packages suggest they should be installed in 
>>subdirectories of ExtraPackages.  For example, Ersek's 
>>RootSearch.m, is to be installed in subdirectory Enhancements 
>>of ExtraPackages.
>>I keep all such 3rd party add-ons in a directory tree 
>>separate from the Mathematica install directory tree.  
>>Namely, in a directory to which $UserBaseDirectory points.  
>>Thus, RootSearch.m is in directory:
>>
>>   ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "ExtraPackages", "Enhancements"}]
>>
>>Yet still a command such as
>>
>>   <<Enhancements`RootSearch`
>>
>>or
>>
>>   Needs["Enhancements`RootSearch`"]
>>
>>fails to find its target.
>>
>>How can I make this work?
> 
> 
> As far as I can tell, you have an incorrect path.  
> 
> My $UserBaseDirectory is 
> In[6]:=
> FileNames[$UserBaseDirectory<>"\\*"]
> 
> Out[6]=
> {C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\Applications,C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\Autoload,C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\FrontEnd,C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\Kernel,C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\Licensing,C:\Documents and Settings\dwa\Application \
> Data\Mathematica\SystemFiles}
> 
> Of these, only $UserBaseDirectory<>"\\Applications" is has any packages.  
> 
> You need to put RootSearch in either
> $UserBaseDirectory<>"\\AddOns\\Enhancements" or
> $UserBaseDirectory<>"\\Applications\\Enhancements".
> 
> The introduction to the package says as much.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 

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