Idea: Failing the build unless you explicitely chose which Okular UI you want to build

[Aleix Pol]

Hi Albert,
I'm unsure it's necessary to be this radical. IMHO, it's fine to just
not build okularkirigami if the dependencies don't match. And
viceversa.

Aleix

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 11:25 PM Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
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> Right now we build by default both the Desktop UI and the Mobile UI.
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> In my opinion, for the user, that doesn't make sense, you either want one installed or the other installed, but not both.
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> On the other hand, it makes lots of sense for CI and for developers, because you don't want to break the build of one while working on the other.
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> My suggestion is to fail the build unless you specify which of the UI you want.
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> So cmake . would fail and tell you something like:
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>     Please specify -DOKULAR_UI=Desktop|Mobile|Both
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> And then users/distros would only build the one they want, and we devels/CI can still chose Both.
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> What do you think?
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> Cheers,
>   Albert
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