RE: error when installing io package

[JohnD]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JohnD [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 9:33 AM
> To: address@hidden; address@hidden; 'Philip Nienhuis'
> Subject: RE: error when installing io package
> 
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> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:22:10 -0600
> > From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
> > To: octave maintainers mailing list <address@hidden>
> > Subject: error when installing io package
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> > I noticed an error from movefile when installing the io package on
> > windows saying that there were no files to move.  Can anyone else
> > confirm this
> problem,
> > or is it just me?  All I did was
> >
> >    pkg install -noauto -verbose io-2.2.6.tar.gz
> >
> > and the installation fails with the movefile "no files to move" error.
> >
> > Should this problem be fixed in pkg by avoiding the call to movefile
> > if
> there are
> > no files to move, or should movefile simply issue a warning if there
> > are
> no files
> > to move and return success?
> >
> > jwe
> >
> 
> I see it on my 4.1.0+
> 
> >> pkg install -forge -noauto -verbose io
> mkdir (C:\Users\JDONOG~1.ECE\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-lSqsGj)
> untar (C:\Octave\Octave-4.1.0+\src\io-2.2.6.tar.gz,
> C:\Users\JDONOG~1.ECE\AppData\Local\Temp\oct-lSqsGj)
> movefile: no files to move
> error: called from 'movefile' in file
> C:\Octave\Octave-4.1.0+\share\octave\4.1.0+\m\miscellaneous\movefile.m
> near line 92,  column 5
> >>

It doesn't do it in 3.8.2