[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #45899] Installing on Windows - file directory

[Lloyd Wood]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45899>

                 Summary: Installing on Windows - file directory
                 Project: GNU Octave
            Submitted by: lloydwood
            Submitted on: Wed 09 Sep 2015 06:27:44 GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Lloyd Wood
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.0.0
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows

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Details:

On installing Octave 4.0 on Windows (7, Enterprise, my account has admin
privileges, installed under that account) and running for the first time,
Octave's directory path was initially set to C:\Windows\system32

An odd choice - users should never see that.

On subsequent launches of Octave its path was set to C:\Users\myaccount
as you would expect. Possibly something not being fully initialised by the
installer?

[Also related to install, it's very odd that Octave installs under C:\Octave
rather than under Program Files (x86)\Octave or Program Files\octave; Octave
configured for i686-w64-mingw32. Not clear from that if I'm running a 32 or 64
bit version, though mingw32 suggests 32-bit, ie should be under Program Files\
and that I'm going to run into problems with large datasets...

If I need to debug differences in behaviour between 32 and 64-bit versions (as
I do with Cygwin itself - I have both installed, and they do exhibit
behavioural differences), how would I even do that? Would expect to see a
32/64-bit installation option for 64-bit systems eventually.]




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