Re: RC2 / 5.0.91

[Andrew Janke]

On 2/7/19 2:45 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 14:15:04 -0500, Andrew Janke wrote:
> > I wonder if, for the test suite, the system and/or site octavercs should be
> > treated differently from the user octaverc, because this might be used to
> > make configuration changes for Octave to work correctly in the environment
> > in which it's installed?
>
> In that case, you can choose to run the test suite with octave
> --no-init-file. This loads the system startup files but avoids loading
> user startup files.

Thanks.

> I feel like this subthread is trying to define a strict environment that
> the test suite should always be run in. IMHO that is not the right
> direction at all. The test suite should be run in the user's normal
> working environment.

I fully agree with this. It would be best if the test suite ran 
everywhere, and it used mechanisms to insulate itself from irrelevant 
variability in the preference/environment state.

> > Thoughts on how to handle this? Should site octaverc still be run when doing
> > test suite runs? Is Octave.app doing the Right Thing by relying on the site
> > octaverc to do important tool configuration?
>
> Yes, I think this is exactly the right thing.

Thanks. Will continue to do so.

Cheers,
Andrew