CVS update: samba/source

Christopher R. Hertel crh at NTS.Umn.EDU
Fri Apr 10 02:35:43 GMT 1998


Ahh...  Okay, *that's* a reason.  I was thinking with my 'technical' hat 
on, not my 'public relations' hat.

It's already done, though.

Chris -)-----

> 
> Chris wrote:
> > On the one hand, I agree 100% that all warnings should be dealt with.  On
> > the other hand, if it's a *warning*, it's meant to call your attention to
> > a *potential* problem, not an actual problem.  Dealing with the warning
> > does not necessarily mean 'making it go away'.  The real problem is the
> > lack of code to use the ModuleID, but that is not an immediate problem.
> 
> I agree with Jeremy that we should try to get rid of all warnings, not
> because warnings are errors (they mostly aren't) but because when we
> ship something that produces a warning on a common platform (especialy
> Linux) we get a pile of worried bug reports from people. Some people
> even say "oh no, I better not install this, it had a warning".
> 
> It is easier to remove the warnings than to educate people on which
> warnings matter and which don't.
> 
> Cheers, Andrew
> 


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Christopher R. Hertel -)-----                   University of Minnesota
crh at nts.umn.edu              Networking and Telecommunications Services


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