decision making (was: Re: [PD-dev] -Wall)

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Mon Nov 28 02:36:08 CET 2005


On Nov 27, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:

> hi devs ...
>
> matju and me disagree on one the following problem:
>
>> btw i'm making efforts to "fix" warnings that i get with using "scons
>> wall=1", which turns on "-Wall" in gcc.
>>
>> This is so that new warnings are more easily noticed, and because
>> unused variables make the code more difficult to understand.
>>
>> i've fixed most of them already. (except in g_*.c)
>
> in my opinion, we shouldn't fix these warnings, because it make merging
> much more difficult. it would make the code slightly more readable, but
> merging will be _much_ more difficult. (in this case, i'd stop merging
> stuff)
>
> i think, this is one of the first instances, where the pd developer
> community should try to find a _common_ decision and thus would
> propose an election.

I agree, something like this that will cause a lot of menial work needs  
to be discussed.  How about submitting a patch to Miller?  If Miller  
accepted this patch, would that also create a lot of work?

.hc

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