Re: deprecating

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Simon Peyton-Jones
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>
>> Do you mean “silently and forever”?
>>
>
> I think that's what I mean, yes.
>
> As Johan notes, many of us run our continuous builds of our packages with
> -Wall -Werror in order to keep them as clean as possible. Introducing a
> deprecation thus forces me into some kind of response as my builds all
> suddenly fail: I can either turn off -Werror for a package, or edit the
> affected source files.

It seems to me that hard-coding -Werror in source distributions is a
mistake since it serves no real purpose other than breaking the package
for everyone whenever a compiler introduces a new warning. You can compile
with -Werror while developing, of course. But why have -Werror in the
release?

Roman