[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] MS Windows portable (i.e. zip) version cannot find pre-installed packages, needs pkg rebuild, not mentioned at first run

[Mike Miller]

Follow-up Comment #25, bug #51632 (project octave):

To my mind, the zip distribution of Octave is an archive, that's all. Calling
it a portable distribution is a bit disingenuous.

I haven't heard much call from users over the years for a truly portable
version of Octave. If that's something that is now desired, maybe we should
tackle the sub-issues in separate bug reports. For now, Octave definitely does
need to know its own root directory (which can be overridden by the
OCTAVE_HOME environment variable for many functions), and the pkg installation
prefixes and cache file locations (which are not corrected to OCTAVE_HOME
because they can be separately configured to be anywhere on the filesystem).

I thought the zip version was intended to be a workaround for not having admin
privileges on a Windows system. Unpack the archive in a specific directory
that the user does have privileges on and then run post-installation commands
that a proper packaging format would normally run.

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