Re: package manager patch + problem

[David Bateman]

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> Below is a diff proposal for pkg.m, which makes it a little bit more
> system-independent. 

This seems like a good idea...

> Besides this, I have a problem when trying to
> uninstall a package, which has been loaded, due to the fact that you
> can't remove a DLL (oct-files are DLL's) if a process has mapped it
> into memory.
>  
> This can happen, even if you didn't actually call any function in the
> package, due to "autoload" statements that use "which", like
>  
>         autoload ("glog", which ("gf"));
>  
> Is it possible to automatically unload all oct-files that are part of a
> package?

what does

pkg unload <pkg>
clear all;
pkg uninstall <pkg>

do? Perhaps the clear all isn't needed, but might be.. I think there are
also some packages in octave-forge that cheat and use "mlock" to prevent
the files being removed, and I don't know how that will work..

Regards
David

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