Re: dirty but most simple method by which pkg install will be successful in mingw octave

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:
>
> I don't understand why this is needed.  As far as I know, Windows
> should not care whether the directory separator is \ or /.  So what is
> rejecting \ on a Windows system?  If it is Octave, then we should fix
> it so that either \ or / will work.  I don't think the correct
> solution can be to change the default file separator to /.
>

I didn't analyze the situation just proposed the fix that was equivalent
to what was done in the propose filesep function.. Someone on mingw will
have to figure this one out.

D.