Re: Octave 4.2.0 opening warning

[Philip Nienhuis]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 17:35:39 -0400, Vic Norton wrote:
> > That was the right question, Carlo.
> >
> > I had exactly three packages in my ~/octave folder.
> >    financial-0.5.0
> >    io-2.4.1
> >    newmarkowitz-1.0.0  (my own package, which doesn’t use any others)
> > Apparently io-2.4.1 caused the problem. Once I threw that out the problem 
> > disappeared.
> >
> > I have had no such error message
> >     warning: octave_config_info is obsolete and will be removed from a
> >     future version of Octave, please use  __have_feature__  or
> >     __octave_config_info__  instead.
> > with previous homebrew installations of octave
> >     4.0.3, 4.0.3_2, 4.0.3_3, 4.0.3_4
> > It just cropped up with the installation of 4.4.0-rc2 yesterday. Apparently 
> > this version of homebrew Octave and io-2.4.1 don’t get along.
>
> They actually do get along just fine, which is why the message you are
> seeing is only a warning, not an error.
>
> Thanks for confirming that it is the io package that is generating this
> warning message.
>
> Since Philip already participated in this thread, it's clear that he
> knows about this change and that a future version of the io package will
> be fixed to not use this deprecated function call.

In fact this has already been fixed a while ago in
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/io/rev/31f49299004b
for io-2.4.2. Current io is at release 2.4.3.

Philip