I kinda get the point, to avoid rogue third parties tainting my
ŕepositories with nasty backdoors, yes, but unless *everything* on the
way to the server including DNS queries is encrypted, then it's still
just a half of the solution and any silly corporate firewall can still
prevent me from cloning stuff from github dot com.
Took me a while (several years?) to figure out a way to benchmark this
without basically duplicating the testing effort and without new
variants being too hard to add.
Otherwise I'd need to duplicate that for clang-cl, mingw and so on. It's
enabled only on MSVC 2019 and newer, because I don'r really care about
older versions -- those are mainly for compatibility with existing code,
and Vulkan is not existing code yet.
This makes it possible to:
- finally use Magnum as a CMake subproject on Windows and have your
executables not fail to run with a "DLL missing" error (and the
setting is put to cache so superprojects just implicitly make use of
that)
- run tests on Windows without having to install first
- use dynamic plugins from a CMake subproject on any platform without
having to install first or load them by filename --- and the plugin
directory is now easily discovered as relative to
libraryLocation() of the library implementing given plugin interface