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

[Yuri Chornoivan]

неділя, 26 січня 2020 р. 00:25:32 EET Albert Astals Cid написано:
> Right now we build by default both the Desktop UI and the Mobile UI.
> 
> In my opinion, for the user, that doesn't make sense, you either want one
> installed or the other installed, but not both.
> 
> 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.
> 
> My suggestion is to fail the build unless you specify which of the UI you
> want.
> 
> So cmake . would fail and tell you something like:
> 
>     Please specify -DOKULAR_UI=Desktop|Mobile|Both
> 
> And then users/distros would only build the one they want, and we devels/CI
> can still chose Both.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
>   Albert

Hi,

I like it.

+1 if it counts.

Best regards,
Yuri