package manager patch + problem

[John W. Eaton]

On 27-Feb-2007, address@hidden wrote:

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

I applied this patch but had to convert \" to " before it would work.
Do you know what is causing that to happen to mail you send?

Thanks,

jwe