Seems
like I’m late to the party here, so rather than skimming
through the entire thread let me just ask a question:
Has
it been considered to provide preconfigured “Warning
Profiles” with 3 simple levels (picky, standard, relaxed) ?
I
see two big workflows here:
(a)
I’m
stuck with a big pile of legacy code, please don’t defocus
my attention with lots of unnecessary warnings.
(b)
I’m
writing some new code, please give me picky warnings to help
me write clean code.
In
my experience, the real annoyance is having to deal with
each warning individually, and that on a global scope. I see
some warning in the Problems view, what the heck is the
right entry in Preferences to turn that beast off ?
Ideally
the tool would be intelligent enough to know what files I
have touched with new code (and enable picky warnings on
those files before I checkin), but leave the old code alone
without extra warnings unless I ask for them.
I’m
curious what the outcome of the survey will be, but IMO
there is no “one size fits most” approach to the warnings.
It’s
better to make it easier fit a user’s situation (type a or
type b, and allow easy turn-off of individual warnings that
annoy me).
Rather
than investing too much into a good single default.
Thanks,
Martin
--
Martin Oberhuber,
SMTS / Product Architect – Development Tools,
Wind
River
direct
+43.662.457915.85 fax +43.662.457915.6
Fyi,
the survey asking about line numbers and compiler warnings
is now live. We will be promoting it on eclipse.org and the
usual social media channels. Feel free to help promote it.
The survey will end in 2 weeks.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XTXHH9M