[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

[Nicholas Jankowski]

Follow-up Comment #11, bug #51632 (project octave):

I had thought adding a simple find/replace on octave_packages before zipping
would have been the simplest fix. Looks like not.

'on first launch' is still a bit of the problem.  When 4.3.0 comes out, I'm
pretty sure it won't see it as first launch on my machine since I've run
Octave before and my profile has the right files in place.  Same if I delete
and 'reinstall'.  It'll only run 'first launch' the first time any version of
Octave is run on the machine.   we want something that detects when _this_
copy hasn't been run yet.

octave_packages is missing on first run. would putting a 


if (~exist(fullfile(OCTAVE_HOME (),"path/to/octave_packages"))) pkg rebuild,
endif;


or similar in .octaverc break anything?

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