[Cppunit-devel] CppUnitW 1.2 merge

[Bastiaan B. <bas...@li...>]

Hi Baptiste (and everyone else),

I've merged most of CppUnitW 1.2, with some exceptions:

* TestFactoryRegistry used auto_ptr. I had to change that to ordinary
pointers: auto_ptr's cannot be used inside STL containers (see for
example:  http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/20_util/howto.html ).
With MSVC++ it may work (by accident), but with g++ is doesn't even
compile. For now, I've only changed pointer types and not done anything
about the memory management: very likely it will leak now. Please have a
look at it.

* I've put the typeinfo stuff in TestSuite and TestFactoryRegistry
inside "#ifdef USE_TYPEINFO ".  RTTI is still rather new and may not be
supported properly on all platforms. Since it's only used to create
TestSuites with names direved from a class name, I did not not feel
dependence of the core library on RTTI was justified. Also deriving the
class name through type_info is an unreliable method. Once again the C++
comittee managed to kill a useful feature: not only may the string
returned by type_info.name() differ from compiler to compiler (e.g. g++
returns some really ugly mangled name), but differ with different runs
of the program as well. Of course this renders the whole method useful.
If someone can explain why the comittee has done this, please do!

* Changed TestSuite.getTests() to return a const ref.

* Moved TestFactoryRegistry.cpp from src/cppunit/extensions to
src/cppunit. It is part of the main library anyway and is much easier to
configure automake for it.

Please give it a try and let me know where I messed up.

Thanks,

Bastiaan