Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/05/20/15:16:35
Charles Wilson wrote:
> Danny Smith wrote:
>
>>>> I'd say go ahead and turn on auto-import in CVS and remove the
>>>>
>>> warning,
>>>
>> I disagree that is a good idea.
>
>
> Two ideas:
> 1) making auto-import the default
> 2) turning off the warnings
>
> You appear to not like either one. I don't really care about the
> warnings, but the auto-import thing should be default. However, I
> wonder how long these "warnings" are going to persist. Using
> auto-import is not a *bug* or *oops, I forgot to declspec() something*
> -- it's the way DLLs are done.
Please bear in mind that some folks, from whom we've heard here before,
are *required* by their work to produce compiles free from warnings. As
suggested, this condition "I found _x_y_z_, and loaded it" is not an
indication of anything "wrong." The message is appropriate, but it
should be clearly "Informational" rather than a warning.
--
David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace I am a Christian man, by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim; R. M. French, tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software.
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