On 12 March 2011 20:54, Frank Lanitz <fr...@frank.uvena.de> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:49:10 +1100 > Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12 March 2011 20:21, Frank Lanitz <fr...@frank.uvena.de> wrote: >> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100 >> > Colomban Wendling <lists....@herbesfolles.org> wrote: >> > >> >> > Maaaybe, sort of see your point, but not really convinced that >> >> > uprating warnings to errors is a good idea on the dev codebase, >> >> > it stops people trying and testing things. >> >> Unfortunately, believe me that non-fatal warnings are use to be >> >> ignored by unexperienced programmers, believing that if their code >> >> compile it is then OK. >> >> And I don't see why a warning upgraded to an error on every build >> >> would be worst than a syntactical problem (as I described above >> >> previously)? In a typical situation, the developer who writes the >> >> plugin should get the warning (well, the error), see his plugin >> >> don't build, care (hopefully :D), and then fix it directly even >> >> before committing and then before anybody else could face the >> >> problem. Don't you think? >> > >> > Just thinking about adding a flag which is activating a paranoid >> > check inside default build system and which lead into failing >> > buildsin such a case. This would give plugin devs the chance to fix >> > their code on one hand and unexperienced people which just want to >> > test to have a build they can do their stuff with. >> >> Yeah, so long as it doesn't make the whole system too complicated and >> is well documented, it has to be easily usable and maintainable :-) > > Yes, didn't had something else in my mind. > For autotools this could be a new target with cpp-flags as on waf it > could be an option on command line. > Something, and I bag you to don't take me to serious, similar to: > make devbuild or ./waf build --developer
Does "waf build --developer" build developers? That would be great we could use some more!!! (well you said not to take it too seriously :-) Cheers Lex PS The question of course is does the nightly build use --developer, I'd say yes for all the reasons I've listed previously. But then by who and when is --release (or whatever its called) used? > > Cheers, > Frank > > > > -- > Frank Lanitz <fr...@frank.uvena.de> > > _______________________________________________ > Geany-devel mailing list > Geany-devel@uvena.de > http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel > > _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list Geany-devel@uvena.de http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel