[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #59426] Horizontal widget positons not persistent

[Markus Mützel]

Follow-up Comment #45, bug #59426 (project octave):

OT: IIUC, MXE Octave was never thought to manage different versions of the
same package. It's designed to easily allow (cross-)building of a set of
packages without depending too much on any tools or dependencies installed on
the build system. And does a good job at that task.
It doesn't have a package manager. So once a package was built and installed
there is no (standard) way of uninstalling that package. It doesn't include
any rules for the various upgrade and downgrade scenarios (and I'd say that
would be out of scope for such a project).
Some version changes might work "accidentally" (because all files from the
installation of the previous version are overwritten). But there's no
guarantee for that.
Adding a package manager to MXE Octave would be a huge undertaking (speaking
of time and energy). That would basically require a re-design of how MXE
Octave is working at the moment.

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