[openssl-dev] who wants to fix travis builds?

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 04:23:52pm +0200, Andy Polyakov wrote:
> >>> - mingw debug and shared builds in master.
> >>
> >> While I can confirm problem with shared (fixable with attached patch,
> >> please double-check),
> > 
> > Can confirm that your patch works.
> > 
> >> I can't confirm problem with debug (please elaborate).
> > 
> > The travis debug builds now also use --strict-warnings, which enables all
> > warnings and treats them as errors, and there's a bunch of warnings when
> > building with mingw.
> 
> I think it's appropriate to set pragmatic goals in this case. Fixing
> warnings for non-primary[!] platform such as mingw in master is arguably
> pragmatic, but not in all versions. So that in this case, i.e.
> travis-ci.org, I'd argue for limiting testing to current working
> de-facto status for all versions but master. Is it reasonable?

Sure, that seems like a sensible strategy.

> > I tried to fix some of them (see [0]) but it's kind of a lost battle.
> 
> What does "kind of a lost battle" mean in the context?

Meaning that there actually are a lot of warnings and many of them are very
difficult (if not impossible) to fix. Fixing all of them would require quite a
bit of work and the result may be very ugly.

As an aside, the patch I previously posted is broken, so just ignore it.

Cheers
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