Where shall I put my "toolbox" my company provides for MATLAB?

Our company produces electrical devices. We wrote an MATLAB interface which makes it possible to communicate with our devices from MATLAB. Where shall we put this extension to MATLAB? Is there a certain folder (almost) every MATLAB installation provides? Would "C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\toolbox\ourtoolbox" be an apropriate location for "ourtoolbox"?

What is the best way to include this toolbox? Is writing

"addpath('C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2014a\toolbox\ourtoolbox')"

at the beginning of every script using the ourtoolbox methods a resonable way?

Additional information:

• We are using Install Shield to install our software.
• In addition we have a programm for finding updates which should be able to update the files in "ourtoolbox".

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

You can put them anywhere and then just add them to the MATLAB path ( addpath/pathtool ). I would advise against putting them in the matlabroot directory or subdirectories.

In R2014b, you can now package them as a toolbox directly in MATLAB which would then allow other users to install just a single file and all of this will be taken care of:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2014b/matlab/creating-help.html

and

http://blogs.mathworks.com/pick/2014/10/03/make-install/