Re: [Libreoffice] --enable-werror

I actually like the auto-detect idea! As long as we still have an 
option to turn it off in case it is misbehaving :)

Marc-André Laverdière
Software Security Scientist
Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services
Hyderabad, India

On Tue 27 Sep 2011 02:03:59 PM IST, Michael Meeks wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:06 +0530, Marc-André Laverdière wrote:
> > That experience lead me to believe that the policy 
> > should be "make it easy for the n00b".
>
>       Quite; easy, and friendly too :-)
>
> > When I tried using this flag, I ended up not being able to _build_ at 
> > all. And that wasn't even due to my own mistake, only some  module I 
> > know nothing at all is breaking the build.
>
>       Sure sure, so - I think Stephan has a point - that we ought to find
> some way of enabling this for some set of people that can cope with it.
> I suspect a good heuristic would be to have an 'auto' mode for the flag
> that checks if you have git push access and if so enables -Werror, so
> that old-hands get it automatically, and newbies don't suffer.
>
> > My point is that building for a n00b should be very simple.
>
>       Quite - it is difficult enough as it is; fret not - personally I'm not
> in favour of -Werror for all - only of the TSC deciding what to do
> here :-) We'll discuss it at our next meeting.
>
>       ATB,
>
>               Michael.