Plugin development couldn't be done without building entire MaxScale

[Salar Nosrati-Ershad]

Dear MaxScale contributors,

I recently noticed devel build target removed from MaxScale cmake recently. (also last commit including devel target has issues and isn't usable)

It makes harder to develop plugins in order there's no headers could be find by compiler without building the core target. It makes my build time longer and forces me to build entire MaxScale with my plugin.

If it's not possible to provide a separated development build, could we have something like maxscale-dev repository package including headers and etc?

Also I think the document should be updated, cause they still contain the usage of target flag and removed devel and all targets.

If there's anything I can contribute I'm open to.

Sincerely,

Salar Nosrati-Ershad

[Johan Wikman]

Hi,

We removed the devel target because it wasn't being maintained properly and there did not seem to be much demand for it.

At this point we do not have plans for introducing anything like a maxscale-dev package.

Br,
  Johan