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[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48221] prefdir should not be a private functi
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Guillaume |
Subject: |
[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #48221] prefdir should not be a private function |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:25:13 +0000 (UTC) |
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Follow-up Comment #4, bug #48221 (project octave):
Thanks for the feedbacks. It would be great to move prefdir.m from
octave/scripts/prefs/private/ to octave/scripts/prefs/.
I still think it would also be an improvement to let the preference directory
have its own folder (eg ~/.octave/ instead of ~/) in case, as Mike mentions,
we end up storing more than a single file (Matlab seems to store many files
there).
It is also possible that, on Windows, a file or folder starting with '.' is
not allowed or recommended. I made a change to my proposed code - I'm just not
sure what get_home_directory () returns on this platform.
## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} prefdir
## @deftypefnx {} address@hidden =} prefdir
## @deftypefnx {} address@hidden =} prefdir (1)
## Return the name of the directory containing Octave's preferences.
##
## @var{D} is a string containing the name of the directory containing
## Octave's preferences. The directory may or may not exist.
##
## If 1 is provided as an input, the preference directory is created if
## it does not yet exist.
##
## @seealso{addpref, getpref, setpref, ispref, rmpref}
## @end deftypefn
function retval = prefdir (varargin)
if ispc
d = fullfile ('AppData', 'Roaming', 'Octave'); % or Documents\Octave
else
d = '.octave';
endif
retval = fullfile (get_home_directory (), d, version ());
if (nargin ~= 0)
if (isnumeric (varargin{1}) || islogical (varargin{1})) && ...
numel (varargin{1}) == 1 && logical (varargin{1}))
if ~exist (retval, 'dir')
mkdir (retval);
endif
else
error ('Input must be 1 to create the preference directory.');
endif
endif
endfunction
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