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Thanks for your reply. With OSS, the exact compiler and build toolchain varies from user to user, so good OSS code tries to be as easy as possible to compile,

Thanks for your reply. With OSS, the exact compiler and build toolchain varies from user to user, so good OSS code tries to be as easy as possible to compile, i.e. avoid -Werror or anything else that deliberately stops compiling.

4ad 5y ago
Of course, the GP tries to instill the idea that open source is not "professional" when in fact in OSS you will see far more variation in development practices and deployment practices than in closed source world. It's a strict superset.