How to add options to the javac build in the JDK 8 repo?

Martijn Verburg martijnverburg at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 08:32:06 UTC 2013


Wouldn't be an open source project without a hall of shame ;-).  For us
casual contributors the longer list is actually helpful as it gives us
places to go and focus, the problems.txt test exclusions also fit in this
category.

Cheers,
Martijn


On 6 September 2013 08:18, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com
> wrote:

> On 2013-09-05 19:53, Joe Darcy wrote:
>
>> Once the "foo" category of warnings are resolved, I think it is a bit
>> clearer to add "foo," to the list of enabled lint warnings rather than to
>> remove "-foo,".
>>
>> However, I'm less concerned with how the various Xlint checks are enabled
>> compared to getting them enabled.
>>
>
> And I think a long list of disabled warnings look like a "hall of shame",
> which explicitely states what we currently suck at. :-) But whatever. If
> you think this is clearer, I won't argue. As you say, the important thing
> is to fix the code and enable the checks.
>
> /Magnus
>



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