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Re: Re: finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`

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• Subject: [mg54130] Re: [mg54105] Re: [mg54065] finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
• From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
• Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:33:50 -0500 (EST)
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>> One thing that does work is to move Enhancements to be a
>> subdirectory of ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Applications"}].

Sorry, that's actually what I meant to say, but spoke too fast. I didn't notice you weren't using Applications in the directory list already.

I think $Path is the environmental variable you're looking for. You can modify it with statements like:

AppendTo["$Path",directoryName]

and you can put that statement in an Init.m file, of course.

Bobby

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 02:47:52 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:

> Moving Enhancements to be a direct subdirectory of $UserBaseDirectory
> did NOT work for me!  Neither
>
>    <<Enhancements`RootSearch`
>
> nor
>
>    <<RootSearch`
>
> find RootSearch.m.
>
> One thing that does work is to move Enhancements to be a subdirectory of
> ToFileName[{$UserBaseDirectory, "Applications"}].
>
> But what I was hoping for was some way of setting some environment
> variable, e.g., so that Mathematica would search subdirectories of
> $UserBaseDirectory other than just Applications and its subdirectories.
>
>
> DrBob wrote:
>> Eliminate the "ExtraPackages" layer in the directory structure.
>>
>> Bobby
>>
>> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 09:27:48 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg
>> <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> Platform: Mathematica 5.1 for Windows (XP).
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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  • finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
  • Re: finding package in ExtraPackages`Enhancements`
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>