Re: [boost] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?

Subject: Re: [boost] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-12 14:12:49

Robert Ramey wrote:

> For the sake of argument, suppose I wanted to attempt to reduce or eliminate
> warnings for the library I maintain.  How would I go about doing this?  I
> can see the warnings when I build the library on my own machine.  But I
> can't see any warnings when I view the test results matrix.  Even if it
> produces warnings, it shows green with no link to view the bjam output.
> Perhaps if the warnings were accessible, there might be more motivation to
> address them.

This is true. Though reverse argument may also be true -- no library developer
ever asked for warnings to be shown. If this is desirable, I'm sure warnings
can be hacked in.

- Volodya