Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?

Subject: Re: [boost] Official warnings policy?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-05 13:40:19

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:07 PM, Paul A. Bristow
<pbristow_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>...
>
> Previous attempts to get agreement on this have not been very successful one
> man's meat proved another poison ;-)
>
> I concluded that every author had to do his own thing for his own warnings - but
> do his best to get rid of them 'locally' to his module without inflicting his
> choice on everyone.  Not all compiler have this fine-grained enough mechanism,
> but then the info in the build info should allow users to add their own choice
> of 'not-useful' warnings.
>
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/Guidelines/MaintenanceGuidelines
>
> is a first go at this.

Thanks, Paul! This gets us off to a strong start.

--Beman