Re: [PATCH 4/3] Makefile: untangle DEVELOPER and -Werror

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On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 11:42 PM, Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 05:17:00PM +0200, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>
>> It's not that complex. With the EAGER_DEVELOPER patch removed, we can
>> have something like this where eager devs just need to put
>>
>>     DEVOPTS = gentle no-suppression
>>
>> and you put
>>
>>     DEVOPTS = gentle
>>
>> (bad naming, I didn't spend time thinking about names)
>
> It seems to me like we're losing the point of DEVELOPER here. I thought
> the idea was to have a turn-key flag you could set to get extra linting
> on your commits. But now we're tweaking all kinds of individual options.
> At some point are we better off just letting you put "-Wno-foo" in your
> CFLAGS yourself?

It's because what AEvar wanted is no longer a dev thing :)

> I don't mind the version-based checks because they're automatic, so the
> feature remains turn-key. But this kind of DEVOPTS seems like a step in
> the wrong direction.
>
> -Peff



-- 
Duy



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