From owner-cvs-all Wed Jan 20 16:26:37 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09161 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:26:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from daphne.bogus (dialup124.black-hole.com [206.9.144.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09138 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 16:26:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hank@black-hole.com) Received: from localhost (hank@localhost) by daphne.bogus (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA57749; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:23:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hank@black-hole.com) X-Authentication-Warning: daphne.bogus: hank owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:23:03 -0600 (CST) From: Henry Miller X-Sender: hank@daphne.bogus To: Peter Wemm cc: Bill Fenner , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -Werror In-Reply-To: <199901201228.UAA19912@spinner.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: > Bill Fenner wrote: > > Or should simply be caught by --don't-be-lazy . -Werror doesn't help > > when the committer thinks that it's so obvious and simple that there's > > no need to even try building it. > > The last time the warnings, etc, thing came up, the consensis was: > > In development mode, all practical warnings turned on. > In release mode, turn them off. It's no use scaring the users about > something they have little or no control over. > > Personally, I'd be quite happy to have -Werror turned on during > development, providing that it doesn't make it into any releases. Might I suggest a possibal compromise: a couple weeks before a release turrning on -werror to force the issue (we want release code to be clean) with devolpers. In between just -Wall is probably good enough to note possibal problems, those who have a real bug will probably place those higher then unrelated warnings. I think it is a good idea to have clean release code, but what happens inbetween will always be less nice. -- http://www.black-hole.com/users/henrymiller/ hank@black-hole.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message