On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 19:26 -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Nicholas Miell wrote: > > Nothing stops you from doing internal builds with -Werror and then > > fixing all the warnings before you make a release. > > You don't get it. The people who need to use -Werror are all those > people who rebuild code. This includes all the package maintainers but > also all everybody who makes changes. Those are all the people doing > rebuilds since otherwise they'd simply use the binary packages which are > provided. > In my experience, binary packages are the exception rather than the rule (especially in impoverished RPM land). Open source projects may include a somewhat recent binary tarball for one architecture, but those projects seem to be in the minority. Most of the people who end up unpacking a tarball and building it are end users who aren't interested in making any changes (beyond removing -Werror when necessary). A more sensible approach would be to include -Werror in CVS/SVN/etc. any development snapshots, but remove it for official release tarballs (which, obviously, aren't targeted towards developers). -- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
