----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinhold Kainhofer" <reinh...@kainhofer.com>
To: <lilypond-devel@gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: GOP-PROP 5: build system output (probable 3)
Am Sunday, 31. July 2011, 01:34:16 schrieb Graham Percival:
** Proposal details
When you run make or make doc,
* All output will be saved to various log files, with the
exception of output directly from make(1).
* By default, no other output will be displayed on the
console, with one exception: if a build fails, we might
display some portion(s) of log file(s) which give useful
clues about the reason for the failure.
I don't like this at all. This means that we won't see ANY warnings
triggered
by snippets in the docs. Shouldn't we ensure that the examples in the
documentation compile nicely without warnings (we shouldn't advocate code
that
causes warnings!)?
To see the warnings, you'll then have to wade through thousands of log
files...
make doc already produces hundreds of warnings. It might be thousands, I've
not counted. I don't see anyone paying any attention to them.
The point is that most devs simply don't notice them - 1 warning line is
less than .0002% of the output. The aim is to reduce this pointless output
and make it easier to focus on warnings, but we have to do it in ways that
are possible. This is what's proposed. Please can we stop re-going over
this and get to a point where I can do something?
--
Phil Holmes
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