Comment 35 for bug 1838448

The gcc assertions should be enabled in debug builds. If they were, this bug would have been found a long time ago. I am less convinced of their usefulness in release builds. Assertions are added as a form of defensive programming to find bugs before release not as a catch all to find bugs in release builds. I agree with Seth that users are going to be far more upset about loosing work due to an assertion crashing KiCad rather then a malformed vrml output file. If Fedora wants to do this, that is their prerogative but I don't want to force this on other platforms release builds.