Analysis of Mauve failures - The final chapter

Fri Apr 5 11:41:00 GMT 2002

Andrew Haley wrote:
> It seems to me that we have to make up our minds.
>> IMO: If we are shipping a production-quality system then we shouldn't
> output warnings about which we'll say "ah, don't worry about that
> message, we already know about that." It doesn't look good, and it
> will suggest to people that we don't have a serious offering. This is
> especially true if the warning message uses obscure and frightening
> terminology. This warning message looks like something major has
> failed.

I agree. Forthermore, it makes running the regression tests more
difficult, since some of them *may* cause the warning to be emitted.
I don't really think this situation is acceptable - the default
should be that the warning is *not* emitted.
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