Re: [boost] Towards a Warning free code policy proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] Towards a Warning free code policy proposal
From: Dave Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-31 00:46:10

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Andrey Semashev
<andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> My point is that the warning-free requirement (at high levels) seems quite
> specific and, to my mind, quite pointless. Additionally, suppressing all
> warnings in all Boost headers is (a) compiler-specific, (b) tedious and (c)
> may not be what the user actually wants. Therefore let the users decide what
> and how to do about warnings.

Here's my suggestion:

* We make no requirement on developers that they address warnings
* We choose a warning level we're going to test at for each compiler
* On our testing pages we publish the number of warnings for each test
along with the number of errors
* On our guidelines page we publish a list of safe ways to "avoid"
various warnings (e.g. use implicit conversions) and perhaps less-safe
ways to "suppress" them (e.g. use a cast).

-- 
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
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