Re: [PATCH 1/3] cmake: add knob to disable vcpkg

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Jun 4, 2021, 18:03 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRBQYbhPbvGvEcmqUFmXM4yysRnWam=Sx_Lr8uWbEZVMg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3170f78daa5fa89f04f61e24c9c64c93ea5b394f.1622828605.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 1:44 PM Matthew Rogers via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:

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> When building on windows users have the option to use vcpkg to provide
> the dependencies needed to compile.  Previously, this was used only when
> using the Visual Studio generator which was not ideal because:
>
>   - Not all users who want to use vcpkg use the Visual Studio
>     generators.
>
>   - Some versions of Visual Studio 2019 moved away from using the
>     VS 2019 by default, making it impossible for Visual Studio to
>     configure the project in the likely event that it couldn't find the
>     dependencies.

Is there something missing between "using the" and "VS 2019"? I'm having a hard time trying to understand what this bullet point is saying due to this apparent gap.

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>   - Inexperienced users of CMake are very likely to get tripped up by
>     the errors caused by a lack of vcpkg, making the above bullet point
>     both annoying and hard to debug.
>
> As such, lets make using vcpkg the default on windows.  Users who want
> to avoid using vcpkg can disable it by passing -DNO_VCPKG=TRUE.

s/lets/let's/

> Signed-off-by: Matthew Rogers <mattr94@gmail.com>