[geos-devel] Thoughts on Backporting the emit warning message to GEOS 3.6 and GEOS 3.5

[Regina Obe]

Okay I'm fine with that.

Thanks all for input and Even's note about the -wError case.

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From: geos-devel [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Greg Troxel
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To: Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io>
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Subject: Re: [geos-devel] Thoughts on Backporting the emit warning message to GEOS 3.6 and GEOS 3.5


Sandro Santilli <strk at kbt.io> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 05:03:58PM -0400, Regina Obe wrote:
>> I'm only softly proposing this but want to get a feel if anyone has 
>> issues before we do.
>> 
>> https://git.osgeo.org/gogs/geos/geos/pulls/14
>> 
>> I would like to back port this pull to GEOS 3.6 and GEOS 3.5 branches.
>
> I think only bugfixes should be backported.

(I am not caught up on this whole thread) The point about -Werror is an excellent one.  For that reason, I don't think backporting is a good idea.  And I agree with strk about only bugfixes, more or less.