[darcs-devel] [issue1138] darcs stable releases don't need to compile with -Werror

[Jason Dagit]

New submission from Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com>:

While it is very important for the development version of darcs, and darcs
developers to use -Werror, this flag can make building stable releases fail
spuriously.

For example, with ghc 6.10 several flags, such as -fffi, are now deprecated and
emit warnings.  These warnings cause the compile to fail but are ignorable at
this time.

It seems prudent to remove -Werror from the makefile of stable releases.  We
have tested the code and I believe it is fair to be optimistic about the
compilation options in this scenario.

I'm not sure how to best make this a reality in the stable releases.  Maybe a
pre-hook in darcs dist?

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messages: 6297
nosy: dagit, dmitry.kurochkin, kowey, simon, thorkilnaur
priority: wishlist
status: need-volunteer
title: darcs stable releases don't need to compile with -Werror

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