[Cppunit-devel] ch-ch-ch-changes ...

[Steve M. R. <ste...@vi...>]

Hullo,

Bastiaan Bakker has invited me to participate more closely in
developing CppUnit, and has granted me cvs write access.

So my plan for the next few days is to go through the stuff I've been
proposing over the last weeks.  I'll commit the small stuff like
documentation fixes first.  I'll post a warning before committing
larger changes.  If I've proposed something very objectionable, 
do let me know.

The two main large changes that I want to get in are:

1. the templated assertEqual() and its related macro, and
2. having all macros (in particular "assert") prefixed.

Since there are already CU_-prefixed macros, I'm planning
to use CU_assert unless I hear a better suggestion.  

I'm also planning to make a backwards-compatibility configure switch
to enable the current "assert()" macro.  My natural inclination is to
discourage the use of naked assert() by disabling it in the default
build (i.e. if the switch is NOT given).  However, that's a bit
obnoxious if CppUnit has a long history of using the naked assert().
What is the general feeling about this?

-Steve

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