[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #63265] Rmdir fails to delete svn folder

[anonymous]

Follow-up Comment #8, bug #63265 (project octave):

I can expect you to run the install script for a widely famous toolset... 

But anyway, the thing here is just that rmdir fails for some reason. 
It is not the script (since matlab has no problem), and it is not permissions
(even if run octave as administrator I'm still getting this). What remains?
It's not even the file browser since that's opened in another folder (and yes,
even if I close it nothing changes). 

Counterintuitively me talking about windows calls is probably the most sloppy
observation in this bug report...
Anyway, after further digging into that I found out the files in the svn
folder are marked as read only. 

Now then you are going to tell me, no shit I'm getting an error. But here's
the crazy discovery I just made: removing a _folder_ with r/o files inside is
*_not_* the same thing of trying to delete the individual _files_ (at least in
Windows, you can see this difference even in cmd between "rmdir" and "del"). 

I cannot really claim that I totally understand how your sys::rmdir works
then, but indeed I believe you are using the second approach rather than the
former (that may also explain all those "rmpath: not found" warnings from line
627 that I get before the delete prompt).



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