[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44548] pkg install defaults to global in Microsoft Windows

[Andrew Janke]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #44548 (project octave):

I'd like to suggest calling out to PowerShell to check the permissions,
instead of probing with a file write:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34859477/check-if-user-has-read-write-permissions.
PowerShell is available in all recent versions of Windows.

I'd also like to suggest that the correct default location for local (user)
installations of Octave pkg packages is under the user LocalAppData shell
folder, which you can locate with `getenv('LOCALAPPDATA')`. That's the Windows
equivalent of `$XDG_DATA_HOME` (~/.local/share).

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