[Libreoffice] minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Stahl]

On 27/01/12 16:44, 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.

sounds good;
i wonder, is there a mailing list or something over at the old
sourceforge project?  maybe it would be a good idea to let people know
that we are maintaining this thing now...