Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses

Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24T22:08:59Z

> At least one now :) There are a number of other solutions to this.
> Have you considered making the ARI mail contributors for certain
> (low-false-positive) categories? Like, for instance, this one. The
> gcc-regression mailing list has several scripts to pull the ChangeLog
> entries since the last run and mail victims. It's extremely effective.

I find the GCC script anything but effective. I get spammed everytime I
commit something to GCC - a very negative experience for an infrequent
GCC committer. I've now been conditioned into ignoring that mail :-(

Contrast that to -Werror (yes ok, it isn't a requirement) and
gdb_mbuild.sh. By encouraging their use we make it possible for people
to address the problems _before_ they become an issue. That way the
contributor and maintainer don't even need to discuss them. For
something like the ARI to be mainlined, it would need to be integrated
into the build process in a way that didn't leave the user confused (a
standard build would have to be 100% warning free - something that at
present is impossible to achieve).

enjoy,
Andrew