[ARROW-859] [C++] Do not build unit tests by default?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Fix Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: C++
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/15391
• Assignee: Wes McKinney
• Reporter: Wes McKinney
• Created: 19/Apr/17 19:51
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 07:11
• Resolved: 20/Apr/17 13:44

Description

This is strictly a subjective call – since more people are using Arrow as a thirdparty library, it might be preferably to only opt-in to running the unit tests (vs. currently: explicitly opting out) for Arrow development.

Issue Links

• blocks: ARROW-670 Arrow 0.3 release