Re: -Werror

[Julio Merino <julio%meroh.net@localhost>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:02 AM, John Nemeth <jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Mar 5, 12:16pm, John Marino wrote:
>
> } 2.  That leaving -Werror for releasing wasn't an oversight / mistake
>
>      This is never a mistake.

How can you be so sure?

> } I think this statement is false.
> } Grepping for BUILDLINK transforms in makefile alone results in 38
> } packages *BEFORE* the recent commits.  Add 3 more for CONFIGURE_ARGS/ENV
> } and several more disabled through patches.  Clearly this club has been
> } used, quite often.
>
>      You're talking about approximately 50 packages out of 10,875
> (latest release announcement).  That's 0.46 per cent.  That is hardly
> "quite often".

And of these 10,875 packages, how many do actually have -Werror
enabled?  Your percentage calculation is against the wrong measure.

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Julio Merino / @jmmv