RFC: Enabling -DKDE4_BUILD_TESTS=ON by default

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 08 October 2012 22:40:55 Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Hi fellow kde-core-develers, i was thinking that from time to time someone
> commits some code that breaks the building of the tests.
> 
> This happens because people is not aware that those parts are unit tested.
> 
> I think that by enabling the building of the tests by default we at least
> make sure the tests will build and maybe when people see their code
> actually breaking the compilation of a unit test we get them to run them
> and maybe even improve them :-)
> 
> Of course, enabling building the tests by defaults makes compilation times a
> bit longer,
Given the huge number of unit tests we have, I hardly doubt that this would 
matter at all.

Let's try to get it into a state that it matters, so +1

Cheers
Martin

> but I do think that the benefits far surpass the problems and
> for people with really slow machines and/or needs to recompile stuff a lot
> there is always the possibility that they can ask cmake not to build the
> tests.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert
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