[vlc-devel] [PATCH] Fix some compilation warnings

Eduardo Vieira eduardovra at gmail.com
Mon Dec 8 12:05:36 CET 2014


Hi,

That is exactly what I was thinking. It's my first attempt to make a
contribution for the project, and I could not imagine anything simpler
to do than fixing these warnings.
Not sure if it was a good choice :/

Regards

2014-12-08 6:46 GMT-02:00 Tom Geens <geens.tom.home at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I am Tom and I am watching this mailing list to see if in the future I can
> be of help and to improve my skills concerning C++ . I have a master of
> science degree in IT Engineering and I believe this project would be of
> great help towards my expertise.
>
> Concerning your last paragraph:
>
>
>> So in principles, these fixes are absolutely correct. But in practice, I
>> am not sure if those bugs is "worth fixing", especially as the same problem
>> is bound to come up again and again in the future :-/ ?
>
>
> You are true these are things that will always come up again. But I propose
> 2 other ways looking at it:
>
> At my work (Volvo Cars IT) we have a boy scout rule: always leave code
> behind cleaner then it was before.
> Just for the sake of getting to know the code you are working with. Fixing
> minor things like warnings can be an easy way to find your way around.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Tom
>
>
>
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