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

[Oliver Heimlich]

Follow-up Comment #3, bug #44548 (project octave):

Checking “properly” for permissions is a hard thing to do, because you
would have to implement the required system calls and consider different file
systems and possibly network shares. The creation of a temporary file is a
reliable method for testing permissions.

If the user does not provide -global or -local, the default should depend on
the file permissions (in Microsoft Windows only!).

Then, the user may install GNU Octave into a public location (e. g.
%ProgramFiles%), where pkg install would default to -local (unless run as
administrator). And when installed in a writable place (e. g. %USERPROFILE%)
it would default to -global and packages would be installed into the program
folder.

Another solution would be to use -local as default in Microsoft Windows,
because this would be simple and work in either case.

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