[Cppunit-devel] What's NEW?

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

I'm working on the final documentation changes for release 1.6.0.  I'm
going to have a quick sweep through the doxygen docs, then make a new
(and hopefully final) snapshot before making the release Sunday night.

I'd like to put together a list of the *major* user-visible changes
(bug fixes and portability enhancements don't count, for example) to
CppUnit since release 1.5.5.  This list should also answer the
question "do I have to update any bits of my source code to move from
1.5.5 to 1.6.0?"

By looking at the ChangeLog, I have generated the following list.  Can
you help me complete it?  I'm sure that I have left out some stuff
from the MS side of things.  And did anything change w.r.t. the
registry?

This list will appear in the file NEWS.

Thanks,
-Steve


	New in CppUnit 1.6.0
	--------------------


* All CppUnit macros now begin with "CPPUNIT_".  

  Macros CU_TEST_SUITE, CU_TEST, CU_TEST_SUITE_END, CU_TEST_SUB_SUITE,
  and CU_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION are renamed but are otherwise unchanged;
  they take the same arguments, and have the same effect.  A string replace
  of CU_ --> CPPUNIT_ will be necessary to update your code.

  Macros assert, assertEqual, and assertDoublesEqual, have been replaced
  by CPPUNIT_ASSERT, CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL, and CPPUNIT_ASSERT_DOUBLES_EQUAL,
  respectively.  Macro assertLongsEqual is replaced by CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL.
  The old assert macros can be used if your sources #define
  CPPUNIT_ENABLE_NAKED_ASSERT before including any CppUnit headers.


* Equality assertion CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(expected,actual) can test
  any type of expression.  The types of "expected" and "actual" must
  be the same; use a cast if necessary.


* Equality tested using CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL may be re-defined using
  a traits class.  Ditto for the string representation used in the
  diagnostic messages.


* CppUnit has a unit test for itself!




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