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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Subject: Re: How to turn off those warning messages during ant build?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:29:45 -0700
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:27:28 -0400, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:

>On 4/5/2012 10:35 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
>> On Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:46:39 -0400, Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>
>>> It is not technical debt.
>>>
>>> Technical debt is when the code was not good when written.
>>
>>       I think you are making a useless distinction here.  Something got
>> changed that caused technical debt.
>
>Not per standard definitions.
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

     In the second to last paragraph, the above has "Activities that
might be postponed include ... tackling compiler ... warnings."

><quote>
>Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is a neologistic 
>metaphor referring to the eventual consequences of poor software 
>architecture and software development within a codebase. </quote>

     And changing the compiler is not part of software development?

>http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html
>
><quote>
>Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to 
>help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the 
>quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar 
>to a financial debt.
></quote>

     Q&D such as changing compilers without testing everything.

>>> Here something externally changed.
>>
>>       Internally, the version of Java used changed.  Had that not
>> changed, there would be no problem.
>
>True.
>
>But upgrading compiler/runtime does not really qualify as
>"poor software architecture and software development" or
>"quick and dirty way".

     It sure can.

     Do you port the code to the new compiler, or do you just hope?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko