Review Request 122206: [kio] Make tests optional

[Vishesh Handa]

> On Jan. 23, 2015, 8:58 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > Not sure why this is suddenly triggering many philosophical discussions about what users should be doing (IMHO, give them choice, this is opensource).
> > Similar changes have been done in most other frameworks long ago, this is most certainly consistent.
> > (see e.g. kcoreaddons - the find_package(Qt5Test) is being done in the autotests subfolder, the same could be done here).
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     It's not about users, it's about developers/packagers. We're not forcing them to run the tests, we're telling them to compile them. They always have a choice by modifying the code, we as upstream shouldn't be making it easier for them to skip the most of basic of quality tests.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     @Vishesh: as I went through the same thing I point you to https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117393/ - it was a discussion for the same on KWin and now I think it was good that we accepted the solution in the end. Maybe the reasoning provided there helps to understand the packagers needs.

@Martin: I do prefer the solution in the kwin patch. This one is really messy.

Though I still don't agree with their reasons.


- Vishesh


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On Jan. 22, 2015, 7:48 p.m., Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 22, 2015, 7:48 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> [kio] Make tests optional
> This is a small patch to CMakeLists.txt to only depend on Qt5Test if BUILD_TESTING.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 7fe0be5d4b2d7d9475a7844b4f8d93fc2f0a00c3 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122206/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sturmlechner
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