On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Steve Fink <sf...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On 01/14/2015 11:26 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
> > From now on, the only supported build mode is unified compilation.  I
> > am planning to follow-up with removing support for the
> > --disable-unified-compilation configure option altogether in bug 1121000.
>
> I commented in the bug, but I guess this is probably a better forum.
>
> Why is the configure option being removed? I understand always building
> unified in automation, but not having a straightforward way at all to
> see if your code is buggy seems... suboptimal. If someone wants to go
> through occasionally and make our codebase valid C++, how should they do
> it after this change?
>

IIUC, in the absence of somebody committed to doing this on a daily basis,
we will quickly slide towards hundreds of include errors, and the configure
option will quickly become useless.

bholley
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