[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59053] 6.0.90a: invalid path in Octave desktop shortcuts if install dir was changed

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #12, bug #59053 (project octave):

What changes? Not so very much.
A list of them with my motives:

I backed out 4d6716dcec28 - install to Program Files by default. IMO an
impractical location for developers as overwriting adapted or debugged .m
files requires admin credentials. Using the "Install only for me" option
Octave ends up in a long path in Programdata, away from most other SW that I
keep in C:\Programs.
See also next point below:

In makeinst_script.sh (after running .configure), I:

* Adapted Installdir to C:\Programs\Octave\Octave-$VERSION. I got fed up with
always having to completely replace the install path, now I only have to
append today's date, and I was too lazy to sort out how to automate even that
(should be simple I guess).

* Commented out most lines in the uninstall section, left only writing
uninstall.exe active. That saves me cleaning up registry entries when having
several dev versions installed alongside each other; otherwise the last
installed version's registry entries are in the way each time I want to
install a new crossbuild.

* In the Shortcuts section, changed all Start Menu references from (s/th like)
%MSPrograms\\GNU Octave\\ to %MSPrograms\\Edu\\Math\\GNU Octave\\  (IMO we
still have to find a way to make that location editable. For plain vanilla
Windows 10 it's no big deal, but I also use the Classic Start menu, and still
have Windows 7 Enterprise at work, and then it counts.)

and that's it.
W.r.t. to this bug report I suppose only the inactive uninstall stuff may be
suspect.

BTW:
Yes I know I can make zip archives rather than .exes and unpack them anywhere.
But the installer has all post-install stuff automated and makes nice Start
Menu entries and desktop shortcuts.



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