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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51684] Request for Windows Portable zip versi


From: Mike Miller
Subject: [Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51684] Request for Windows Portable zip version without absolute paths & system hooks
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 16:59:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Follow-up Comment #2, bug #51684 (project octave):

I dug up this old thread from almost 3 years ago:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/octave-maintainers/2014-11/msg00018.html

It looks to me like there may have been a consensus to just eliminate the
possibility of configuring the pkg global prefix, and always have it depend on
OCTAVE_HOME, or possibly to use one of the other compiled-in paths that
already change with OCTAVE_HOME like "localverfcnfiledir" and
"localveroctfiledir". But no work was done and no bugs were filed to do
anything about it.

AFAICT the main blocker to major improvements to the pkg system has been that
a lot of work was done on a fork/rewrite/redesign some years ago, and it has
not been merged back in. And now I feel that some (myself included) are wary
about changing the pkg that we have because this other rewritten pkg exists
out there.

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