On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 09:00:50PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 6:12 PM, Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > flake8 checking is useful.  Until now, it always failed the build for any
> > flake8 errors.  This is too aggressive, for the same reason that always
> > failing the build for any compiler warnings is too aggressive: compilers
> > change over time and asynchronously from OVS itself.  Thus, if we release
> > some version of OVS today, even if it's flake8-clean today, it might not
> > be flake8-clean tomorrow, even with the same settings.  We don't want to
> > have to track flake8 warnings on every release branch.
> >
> > Thus, this adopts the same policy for compiler warnings: always report
> > them, but only fail the build if --enable-Werror was configured.  Usually
> > just developers use that configure option, and they're prepared to deal
> > with the fallout.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> Acked-by: Russell Bryant <[email protected]>

Thanks, applied to master, branch-2.7, and branch-2.6.
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