On Jul 11, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Roy Stogner wrote: >> Should I modify the source? > > Only if you can convince the developers upstream to do the same. > >> Should I modify CFLAGS to turn these warnings off? > > I think so. > >> Basically, what's the policy on warnings from contrib? > > Officially, I don't think we have one. ;-)
Ah good! Now we get to have a discussion! John's vote was for modifying the source... Roy has a vote for modifying the CFLAGS... I can see both sides. Personally, modifying 3rd party source doesn't sound like the right idea. This is the same situation Linux distributions get into... where they want to fix bugs, but if those aren't captured upstream then the next time a new version of that package comes out... someone has to do more work again. At the same time... Nemesis probably isn't going to change much. The distribution I got was from 4 months ago... and it's essentially been stable for years now. So it might be the case that we never capture another snapshot of this source... I think I'll try to modify the CFLAGS to eliminate the warnings... if that doesn't do it then I might modify the source. Derek ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Libmesh-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-devel
