[Libreoffice] minutes of ESC call ...

[David Tardon]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:44:58PM +0100, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> >
> > * unit test framework issues (Markus)
> >        + we are missing an important feature
> >        + cppunit development appears dead/stalled for 2+ yrs
> >                + but we support system-cppunit
> >        + can we not just declare ourselves the new up-stream
> >          for cppunit (Lionel)
> >        + requiring an internal cppunit not a big deal ? (Norbert)
> >                + always internal one for dbgutil anyway (Markus)
> >        + three options: (Stephan)
> >                1. always use internal / patched version
> >                2. there is a cppunit2 in Launchpad
> >                        + is it compatible ? or even more active ?
> >                3. re-evaluate whether we need cppunit, or something
> >                   else: google stuff eg. 'testing framework'
> >        + looked into cppunit2 (Markus)
> >                + stopped development at same time ~2009
> >                + project dead too.
> >        + prefer our own version, or switch to new framework
> >          for integration tests (Markus)
> 
> > AA:     + create new cppunit repository at freedesktop (Michael)
> 
> done, thanks Michael
> 
> > AA:     + import existing cppunit repo into it (Markus (with Kendy))
> 
> With a lot of help by kendy done. Repository is now at
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/cppunit. I also tagged several
> of the last releases so that you get them easily if needed.

Hi,

I created a wiki page for cppunit at
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/cppunit . I am also going to
notify the Fedora maintainer(s) of cppunit that the project is alive
again :)

D.