[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44548] pkg install defaults to global in Microsoft Windows

[Carnë Draug]

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #44548 (project octave):

Defaulting to global on windows seems to be design 

http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/fc6c87e254bf/scripts/pkg/pkg.m#l292

although it may be so because of not knowing how to check properly for
permissions on that system.

I had a a fix for this some years ago which involved checking permissions by
actually trying to create an empty file. I committed it to a development work
for pkg https://bitbucket.org/carandraug/octave/commits/a240810c24d1 but I
can't graft it now since it has a lot of other changes that are not really
ready to be merged. The iswritable function used there seems to be missing as
well :(

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