Explicitly add BUILD_TESTING CMake option #5627
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| option(ADD_HEADERS_AS_SOURCES "Whether to add headers as sources of a target or not. This is needed for some IDEs which wouldn't detect headers properly otherwise") | |||
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| option(BUILD_TESTING "Whether to enable and build tests or not") | |||
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Should this also have a default of OFF?
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If the starting value is not specified, the default is OFF.
Or If my first interpretation isn't right, it's normal to keep it off, because it yields to the fastest build for end users and developers.
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I like the implicitness explicitness of having a default
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I like the implicitness of having a default
Do you mean explicitness?
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I thought it would've been redundant since you don't have multiple defaults to take into account (and this default is sane).
That been said, I'll merge this and do those changes in another PR, where I'm doing some small cleanups to variables.
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I like the implicitness explicitness of having a default
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