Notify the user when their settings will be ignored

[PinkaminaDianePie]

Problem

There are some cases when Prisma ignores the configs, provided by the user, but the user has no idea about that. For example, when Prisma runs on Netlify, it throws away anything the user specified in binaryTargets and downloads the query engine specified in the Prisma code.

Suggested solution

Print a warning in the terminal, notifying the user about that:

You are running Prisma in the Netlify. Your binaryTargets configs will be ignored. Please unset the NETLIFY variable if you need to install another engine for some reason: NETLIFY= yarn prisma generate

Alternatives

Get rid of such magic stuff altogether and just tell the users what kind of binaryTargets they should use for every platform, instead of doing it implicitly

[janpio]

Are there any other cases than us making sure the app works when deployed to Netlify?

[PinkaminaDianePie]

Deploying to other targets from Netlify's CI, like Cloudflare's edge functions, AWS lambdas and so on. Took me a lot of time to understand why Prisma silently ignores the binaryTargets.

[janpio]

Interesting. Can you open a new issue where you formulate that as a bug?
I think we were not aware of this use case, so never considered this to be a problem.