Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 04:36:35

>
>     I'm  *not* saying we should do this for 1.41, but should we have an
>     official policy regarding compiler warnings and which ones we regard 
> as
>     "failures"?
>     I realize these can get pretty busy-body at times, but if the user 
> sees
>     several pages of warnings when building Boost it doesn't look so good.
>
>   It not only doesn't look good.  It isn't good.

No disagreement from me.

Some stats might help:

Boost-1.41 pre-beta on ubutunu-9.1 with gcc-4.4.1 produces an 11 Mb log file 
from the build, with 133 THOUSAND LINES of output.

And that's just from building the binaries - so a tiny subset of Boost - I 
dread to think what a full test build would reveal.

In fact the more I think about this, the more I feel that we should fix as 
much of this as we can for 1.41.

John.