Option to disable automatic kit detection

Is it possible to add a cmake.enableKitScan: bool option?

Sometimes when giving our CMake project to new members, people often mistakenly use a scanned kit which is not configured with properties such as prefix path resulting in decreased productivity. And we are cross compiling our project to a limited number of platforms ergo unable to use the common cmake.configureArgs. It would be really convenient if this option is available.

[ilg-ul]

I fully agree that these so called automations are very annoying and in my opinion they should not be enabled by default, neither in CMake, nor in the C/C++ extension; instead, they should require an explicit action from the user to trigger them.

But unfortunately the maintainers have a different opinion. 😦

[bobbrow]

Thanks @bharatvaj. We will take a look. The idea seems fine to me, but we should leave this issue open to track the bigger issue around unnecessary scanning when presets are in use. We recently did some refactoring in this area, so we might already be most of the way there.