I'm ok with that.  I think some of the conversion warnings might be useful
(I know I've had bugs in other code that would have been caught with
them).  Would people be opposed if I tried to go through and cleanup the
EVERYTHING warnings even if more might creep in?

Thanks,
Micah

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:27 PM Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm of the same mind as Antoine on this. I think it's useful to look
> at the EVERYTHING warnings periodically, but it is enough effort to
> keep things simultaneously building cleanly with gcc, clang, and MSVC,
> that I would prefer to maintain the status quo until it can be
> demonstrated to be a problem (and even then, it just might be that we
> add more specific warnings that we care about to the CHECKIN warning
> level). The clang CHECKIN warnings catch some definitely bad things
> like missing virtual dtors etc.
>
> - Wes
>
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 3:38 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hmm... There are enough warnings that need pampering in the default
> > settings that I don't think we want to go the full length of enabling
> > all warnings.  Sometimes it's a PITA to get code to compile cleanly on
> > all platforms.
> >
> > If compiler writers had a more reasonable judgement when it comes to
> > designing and enabling warnings, I would perhaps revise my position ;-)
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Antoine.
> >
> >
> > Le 03/03/2019 à 04:47, Micah Kornfield a écrit :
> > > As part of trying to fix the mingw C++ build [1], I tried compiling
> with
> > > BUILD_WARNING_LEVEL=EVERYTHING and it seems like it highlights a lot of
> > > possible warnings that aren't in CHECKIN.   Have we not turned on the
> > > additional warnings because there was too much to fix at the time this
> was
> > > added?  Or is a conscious decision to ignore some warnings?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Micah
> > >
> > > [1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/3793
> > >
>

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