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Subject: Re: [boost] [warnings] Are warnings acceptable artifacts from builds?
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-09-08 16:37:59


On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Stewart, Robert<Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Stewart,
>> Robert<Robert.Stewart_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > Emil Dotchevski wrote:
>> >
>> >> Insisting to fix warnings is somewhat insulting to the
>> >> author of the
>> >> library, too. It presumes that they did something
>> >> unreasonable, when
>> >> in fact the warning itself may be unreasonable.
>> >
>> > The warning may, in fact, be unreasonable, but the library
>> > author should do all possible to quiet the warning.
>>
>> Why?
>
> For the reasons I already gave.

To address someone's preference?

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode


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