intersystems
IPM load - setting a custom target directory
When installing a module from a tarball using IPM (using load), the unpacked files are placed under a Temp/ subdirectory. It would be helpful to allow setting this to be custom so you can choose a target directory (or perhaps have it export into a directory where the tarball is similar to what happens if you unpack a tarball from the command line)
As of 0.10.4, the install command will unpack the files into $System.Util.DataDirectory()/ipm/<packagename>/<version>/. The load command should probably also do the same by default.
We are testing on 0.10.4 - we had talked to Keshav and are aware that install will unpack to that directory, but load will always use a Temp directory. We are looking to see if we can do something similar for load, as it is for install.
By "should" I meant we should change the code to do so, not it should be doing it right now. Was just adding some context, sorry for the confusion.