Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again
authorHallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:01:26 +0000 (20:01 +0100)
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
Tue, 25 Mar 1997 19:04:34 +0000 (07:04 +1200)
commit4176c059b9ba6b022e99c44270434a5c3e415b73
tree753ea4ce81d746665968542e3bdf7da9b8257830
parent9b56c8f8085a9e773ad87c6b3c1d0b5e39dbc348
Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again

Tom Christiansen wrote:

>>-w is removed from a lot of installed scripts, to
>>get rid of annoying warnings about legitimate code.
>
> Hm... I kinda think this is a bad idea. If there are too
> many warnings, something should be fixed.  Historically,
> -w has at time been too noisy, and we've fixed it.

Right.  Let's add a note somewhere (perlrun? perldelta? INSTALL?):

p5p-msgid: 199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no
pod/perldelta.pod