[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #58299] Local packages for different Octave versions cannot be installed in parallel

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #14, bug #58299 (project octave):

Like we've seen with Octave 6.3, we are trying to keep the API stable through
minor versions. But we cannot guarantee that this will always be the case.

To avoid the issue that motivated this change re-appearing when the API should
change between minor versions in the future, I pushed a change here that uses
the "api_version" string instead of the "major_version" as an identifier in
the path for the default local package store:
https://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/2cc14e275a51

Using something like "MAJOR_VERSION.MINOR_VERSION" would require to re-install
packages even if it would be possible to use the same installation.

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