Re: [Flightgear-devel] CanvasPath.cxx requires cctype

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

> On 18 Dec 2016, at 11:46, Florent Rougon <f.r...@fr...> wrote:
> 
> Not a problem personally, installing libqt5websockets5-dev solves the
> it, and even works on jessie. I was just wondering if you actually
> intended to make it mandatory, because I had the impression you used it
> so far only for the panel. But again: not a problem for me if Qt
> WebSockets is mandatory.

I think my confusion here is that normally people have all of Qt, installing it as discrete packages is confusing, I don’t know why the distributions encourage that. My assumption was that if people were using Qt5 at all, they would have the WebSockets module, so making it mandatory (given that Qt5 was found!) was reasonable. Your experience suggests I’m wrong about that.

What I will probably do is make this directly controllable via a config option (as we already do for FGpanel, FGViewer and so on), and default to ON/OFF based on if all the required Qt5 modules are found.

Kind regards,
James