[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #36743] Octave:matlab-incompatible warning warns about Octave's own files

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #36743 (project octave):

I suppose Octave's "initial path" include OF packages? 
i.e., 
  <OCTAVE_HOME/share/octave/packages/
and  
  ~/octave/ ?
(...which can change during the day as pkgs get loaded/unloaded)


AFAIU this warning_id is only useful for development code meant to also be run
with the competition (ML / Freemat / JMathlib / (Scilab (after translation))
so your suggestion makes sense to me.

For a start, the entire <OCTAVE_HOME>/share/ tree can be excluded from this
warning_id.

~/octave/ can be trickier as:
- on Linux that's where OF pkgs end up when installed as non-root (at least on
my box), so it should be excluded for this warning_id, but: 
- on Windows that's where I suppose people do their dev work (based on a.o.,
the 3.2.4 binary which created that directory) so it should be included for
the warning_id.
AFAIK on Windows, m-files in OF packages are always installed in
<OCTAVE_HOME/share/octave/packages/

Wouldn't checking for path in warning() induce a lot of overhead in the
parser?


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