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Hi All,

I am configuring SPM to work in a shared environment and I am getting a lot of requests for SPM versions and also SPM toolboxes (and versions). Currently SPM looks in one location for toolboxes and this makes managing things quite difficult.

I am considering updating the spm.m code below to not only look in the immediate directory but also parse a "MATLABSPMPATH" environment variable. That way a variety of toolboxes locations could be set in the MATLABSPMPATH and hopefully SPM will recognise both local and independant toolboxes.

1) Is this something the SPM community would like? I can share the results if so

2) Is there something deeply flawed in this approach? e.g. is the directory location hardcoded elsewhere or needed by the toolboxes themselves?


% Toolbox directory
 %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
Tdir = fullfile(spm('Dir'),'toolbox');
 

%-List of potential installed toolboxes directories
 %-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 
if exist(Tdir,'dir')
 d = dir(Tdir);
 d = {d([d.isdir]).name};
 d = {d{cellfun('isempty',regexp(d,'^\.'))}};
 else
 d = {};
 end
 
Cheers,

Paul
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