|
From: | Ralf Corsepius |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH 4/4] New automake command line option `--silent-rules'. |
Date: | Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:54:07 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) |
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Monday 2009-03-09 16:10, Ralf Corsepius wrote:And I take it you also oppose cmake thenFor this patch, I'm unsure if we should even add it at all.FWIW: I am opposed to it. All this silencing stuff does is to add further potential sources of errors.Which ones, please?Those yet to be discovered.Oh what great prejudice.No, that's experience and a matter of design. IMNSHO, this --silent thing is entirely superfluous featuritis, whose only achievement it is to stir up things.
Correct.
- just out of principle -,
No, ... but my reasons for not liking cmake are off-topic here.
Correct. that's one of cmake's sillynesses. It hides away the silent bugs a package suffers from.which has some similar silent mode too (by default even!)...
Pardon, but you are "fixing" something, which has hardly been an issue (I recall you repeatedly complaining about it), for the 15years+, the autotools are around.What is being quiesced (it's not even silent, linguistically) is the utterly long command line that is traditionally so prevalent during compilation in automake-using projects. Not the warnings or errors $CC would give, so I find your claim without substance.
Ralf
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |