[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51632] make global pkg paths always relative to OCTAVE_HOME, no need to pkg rebuild -global when path changes

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #40, bug #51632 (project octave):

Markus, I think there's little wrong with your fix for bug #56267.

An issue is that all over the place in Octave we have a mix of "8.3" and LFN
style paths.

One way to tackle that would be to deal with all 8.3 pathnames in one fell
swoop, but that could defeat the very purpose they were created for.
The other tactic would be to just wait until more bugs pop up caused by mixing
the path name styles on Windows. We'd need to keep track of where that is, as
one fine day all those canonicalize_file_name () calls might be dropped.

My vote is for the latter option :-)

We can try to proactively grep for places where pathnames are compared. I
suspect that number will be limited and I think we already got most of them.

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