Re: [Boost-testing] testing with all warninggs being treated as errors

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] testing with all warninggs being treated as errors
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-11-22 09:16:42

Le 21/11/15 06:28, Robert Ramey a écrit :
> Right now on the test matrix there are large number of tests marked
> failing as just because they emit a warning.  This is unhelpful and
> mis-leading.  Given the breadth of environments we test on, it's
> unrealistic to expect that we can avoid all warnings.  Please remove
> this switch from the tests.
>
> Robert Ramey

+1

see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/264325

The resources are rare: the runners are cycling not so frequently and 
some platforms are unavailable to developers. While those warnings are 
better removed for end users, reporting them as errors is not helping 
the developers.

Raffi