[Geany-devel] Ideas on increasing quality of plugins

[Lex Trotman]

On 12 March 2011 20:54, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 20:49:10 +1100
> Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12 March 2011 20:21, Frank Lanitz <frank at frank.uvena.de> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:53:47 +0100
>> > Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> > Maaaybe, sort of see your point, but not really convinced that
>> >> > uprating warnings to errors is a good idea on the dev codebase,
>> >> > it stops people trying and testing things.
>> >> Unfortunately, believe me that non-fatal warnings are use to be
>> >> ignored by unexperienced programmers, believing that if their code
>> >> compile it is then OK.
>> >> And I don't see why a warning upgraded to an error on every build
>> >> would be worst than a syntactical problem (as I described above
>> >> previously)? In a typical situation, the developer who writes the
>> >> plugin should get the warning (well, the error), see his plugin
>> >> don't build, care (hopefully :D), and then fix it directly even
>> >> before committing and then before anybody else could face the
>> >> problem. Don't you think?
>> >
>> > Just thinking about adding a flag which is activating a paranoid
>> > check inside default build system and which lead into failing
>> > buildsin such a case. This would give plugin devs the chance to fix
>> > their code on one hand and unexperienced people which just want to
>> > test to have a build they can do their stuff with.
>>
>> Yeah, so long as it doesn't make the whole system too complicated and
>> is well documented, it has to be easily usable and maintainable :-)
>
> Yes, didn't had something else in my mind.
> For autotools this could be a new target with cpp-flags as on waf it
> could be an option on command line.
> Something, and I bag you to don't take me to serious, similar to:
> make devbuild or ./waf build --developer

Does "waf build --developer" build developers? That would be great we
could use some more!!!  (well you said not to take it too seriously
:-)

Cheers
Lex

PS The question of course is does the nightly build use --developer,
I'd say yes for all the reasons I've listed previously.  But then by
who and when is --release (or whatever its called) used?

>
> Cheers,
> Frank
>
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