Allow skipping docs installation #8911
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Application packaging sometimes requires to list docs explicitly in a packaging' setup file and sometimes even package some of them (namely license file) separately. In this case an extra installation step becomes unnecessary. This patch allows packager to skip it. Signed-off-by: Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@gmail.com>
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Hi @lemenkov , could you please point to well-known libraries that use such a step for CMake? As I see we are going to add an extra option just for the sake of saving space for 3 files. |
Nope, nothing comes to my mind. |
Then I don't understand the benefit of doing this step for CMake. I haven't seen any software that doesn't copy license files into an installation location. Please explain if something I am missing for this change. |
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Hello, and sorry for the delayed answer. First I handled this a bit differently so I do not need this PR any more. The issue we need to treat License data and other supplementary doc-files differently while packaging. So I do not need them to be installed at all - I pick them up during the packaging stage. Anyway it's not a big deal and I am going to close it. |
Application packaging sometimes requires to list docs explicitly in a packaging' setup file and sometimes even package some of them (namely license file) separately. In this case an extra installation step becomes unnecessary. This patch allows packager to skip it.