[vtk-developers] [ANNOUNCE] New module system landing

[Sean McBride]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 13:42:25 -0500, Ben Boeckel said:

>On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:48:00 -0500, Sean McBride wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:07:12 -0500, Ben Boeckel via vtk-developers said:
>> >All third party warnings have been suppressed for now (though some may
>> >slip through yet). I'll deal with those in the future.
>> 
>> Any news on this?  My bot submissions have lots and lots of 3rd party
>> warnings...
>
>No, I haven't gotten to this yet. The vast majority are from one warning
>(redefinition of PRI64 or something), so fixing that one should help a
>lot. That should be fixed upstream and brought back into VTK though.
>There are others which should really be fixed upstream too.
>
>> (They didn't used to.)
>
>Well, we used to ignore all kinds of warnings on CDash (they still
>appeared in local builds though).

And is it your intention to not bring back this ignoring?

Getting all the many third party libs as warning-clean as VTK proper is a pretty Herculean task.  Meanwhile, all those third party warnings stop us from seeing VTK warnings.  If no one is doing the former, why should we lose the latter?

Cheers,

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