[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #35392] /etc/octaverc

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #35392 (project octave):

                Category:             Interpreter => Configuration and Build
System
                Priority:              5 - Normal => 3 - Low                
                 Release:                   3.6.0 => dev                    

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Follow-up Comment #7:

This bug is still actionable. There are a few open bugs all having to do with
the location of startup files.

Octave currently kind of follows the gdb model, in that configs are loaded
from a system-wide config file, a user config file, and a startup file in the
current directory.

This bug is about moving the system-wide startup file to something like
$(sysconfdir)/octave/octaverc by default, or maybe allowing it to be
configured, as gdb does in its configure script. Right now it defaults to
$(datadir)/octave/$(version)/m/startup/octaverc with no easy way to change
that. The user can set the OCTAVE_VERSION_INITFILE enviroment variable, and
that is documented, but can't be set to something else globally.

But then there is also a site configuration file that is different from the
version configuration file. Should both be moved to $(sysconfdir), one or the
other, or neither? Or should a startup file in $(sysconfdir) be in addition to
the current startup files? Lots of options.

Updating release to dev.

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