Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> At least one now :)  There are a number of other solutions to this. 
> Have you considered making the ARI mail contributors for certain
> (low-false-positive) categories?  Like, for instance, this one.  The
> gcc-regression mailing list has several scripts to pull the ChangeLog
> entries since the last run and mail victims.  It's extremely effective.

I find the GCC script anything but effective.  I get spammed everytime I 
commit something to GCC - a very negative experience for an infrequent 
GCC committer.  I've now been conditioned into ignoring that mail :-(

Contrast that to -Werror (yes ok, it isn't a requirement) and 
gdb_mbuild.sh.  By encouraging their use we make it possible for people 
to address the problems _before_ they become an issue.  That way the 
contributor and maintainer don't even need to discuss them.  For 
something like the ARI to be mainlined, it would need to be integrated 
into the build process in a way that didn't leave the user confused (a 
standard build would have to be 100% warning free - something that at 
present is impossible to achieve).

enjoy,
Andrew