Re: [boost] Boost Policy on compiler warnings?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-07 00:47:58

From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>

> At 09:25 AM 8/6/2002, Pete Becker wrote:
>
>  >Warnings create, in essence, language variations. Today they're one of
> the
>  >biggest obstacles to portability.
>
> Sigh...  I'm afraid you're right.
>
> That would argue for either not reporting warnings at all, or only
> reporting warnings that are likely to be common to many platforms.
>
> I'd like to hear from others.  Or maybe nobody cares about warnings and
we
> should forget the whole idea.

People do care. When I ship my library out and someone sees a huge pile of
warnings, it reflects badly on my code (regardless of whether it's
justified), and makes people nervous about using it.

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