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Context:
With the python template, a hash of the src folder is done before and after the build. If the hash is different it indicates that the build process has altered the content of src and as expected a validation error is displayed.

The issue:
If the src folder contains hundreds/thousands of file and sub-folders tree it may take a very long time to complete.

Note: Src folder may contains thousand of file if for example an alternate build process is being use which polutes the src folder with downloaded libraries. (This is how the problem was identified).

Design: Having this validation in place is a major plus value to the project build validation but it is clear that some use cases makes this impractical. The solution is clearly not to remove the validation. Base on a given project situation (which won't change much in a project lifetime), a good compromise would be to have a setting available in the build script to activate/deactivate this validation.
Note: The idea is to keep the setting embedded (hardcoded) in the build script and in no way to add a command line parameter nor to add a configuration file.