On 07/08/2013 09:41, Mark Thomas wrote:
> For trunk we have been running a policy of zero warnings in the code.
> This has helped to highlight issues as code is edited as any warnings
> are immediately clear. Obviously, this depends on what warnings are enabled.
> 
> Currently, we use Eclipse's "Ignore unavoidable generic type problems."
> Recently a couple of issues has been highlighted with this:
> 1. Other IDEs might not have this setting.
> 2. javac does not have this setting
> 3. Some of the problems Eclipse excludes are avoidable (well, sort of
> avoidable as avoiding them requires using JRE methods that themselves
> have @SuppressWarnings annotations).
> 
> In favour of the current situation is that it reduces clutter in the
> code base slightly.
> 
> While I am all for reducing clutter in the code base, there do appear to
> be good reasons for disabling the "Ignore unavoidable generic type
> problems." and using @SuppressWarnings instead.
> 
> Personally, I am happy with the current settings but not unhappy to
> change. I guess that makes me +0 on changing. What does everyone else think?

The consensus seems to be to change them.

I'll get that done shortly for trunk and 7.0.x.

Mark


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