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Default behaviour for yaml-cpp install targets missing in README #1381
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I struggled a lot to find out why the targets for yaml-cpp did not get installed, when fetching them like described in the README in the CMakeLists.txt of my own project.
Now I found out, that in this PR (#1007) it was changed to not be always ON by default to install the targets.
It would probably be really helpful to add a small comment to the README under the section 'How to integrate it within your project using CMake' that it could be necessary to add option(YAML_CPP_INSTALL ON) if yaml-cpp is not the top project, because it could save time for other developers as this feels like a pretty standard use case.
If you agree it would be nice to add this.
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SGSSGene commentedon Mar 11, 2026
The opinions on the default behavior about the option differ a lot.
I rather not change any of the default values.
But adding a section in the README about the available options would be nice.