[Xorp-hackers] TODO list for rls 1.7

Mark Handley M.Handley at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Fri Apr 23 10:43:11 PDT 2010


On 23 April 2010 18:23, Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com> wrote:
> On 04/23/2010 10:10 AM, Mark Handley wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the fix Ben.
>>
>> On -Werror, on many occasions it's annoyed me, but on a fair number of
>> occasions it's saved my bacon.  I'd rather keep it and do the right
>> thing.  Just my personal view though.
>
> I'm all for fixing the warnings, but the netlink related alignment errors on
> Linux
> cannot be fixed in a useful manner as far as I can tell because the errors
> are in the
> standard linux include headers.

Fair enough.  I just want to minimize the code that is compiled
without -Werror, not reduce it to absolutely zero.

>> Regarding boost, I think how we left it on the phone call last night
>> was that Bruce would write a short note saying what he believes boost
>> gives us, and why it's the right thing for Xorp.  So I'd like to wait
>> for that before we make a decision.
>
> Agreed.  I'd just like to make the decision before 1.7 is released
> so that anyone packaging xorp doesn't have to deal with boost if they
> don't have to.

Definitely.

 - Mark



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