Re: Proposed build profile: noinsttests

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

Simon McVittie writes:
> The name of the profile
> -----------------------
>
> The "noinsttests" name is inspired by previous discussion (on a bug
> asking for more <!nocheck> in some package, if I remember correctly?),
> and by ginsttest-runner in the gnome-desktop-testing package[1], which
> is a test-runner for GNOME's installed-tests initiative.
>
> If people strongly prefer build profiles to be singular, then "noinsttest"
> would also be fine.
>
> The conventional names for the build-time options that enable/disable
> GNOME installed-tests are --{en,dis}able-installed-tests (Autotools) and
> -Dinstalled_tests={true,false} (Meson), but I think "no-installed-tests"
> or "no-as-installed-tests", or a version of one of those names with
> words run together, would be inconveniently long for a build-profile.

I think a name without abbreviations like "no-installed-tests" is
better.  While it is clear what the name means for people working with
build profiles all the time, a more expressive name might be easier on
people only dealing with them occasionally.

Ansgar