[Quickfix-developers] Is the development stagnated?

[Balwinder S D. <bdh...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I'm new to quickfix, FIX and hence this list also.

I have been playing around with the quickfix sources checked out via 
SVN, seems that the development and, or testing of latest code is 
somewhat stagnated under Unix/FreeBSD/Linux and, or Mac OS/X systems:

    [bsd@cto quickfix-1.12.4-svn]$ svn info
    Path: .
    URL: 
https://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quickfix/trunk/quickfix
    Repository Root: https://quickfix.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/quickfix
    Repository UUID: 533fcf9a-9214-0410-92c4-e4e556a5f8fb
    Revision: 1999
    Node Kind: directory
    Schedule: normal
    Last Changed Author: orenmnero
    Last Changed Rev: 1999
    Last Changed Date: 2008-07-08 03:24:17 +0530 (Tue, 08 Jul 2008)

Although, I somehow managed to make the broken SVN version work on both 
under the Debian/Linux and FreeBSD environments, but the _test/runut_ 
(C++) and _test/runut_ruby failed to pass unit tests:

    [bsd@cto test]$ ./runut 5000
    <ut>
      <output>

      </output>
      <results total="0" failures="0">
      </results>
    </ut>
    C++/test/ParserTestCase.cpp:75: error: Failure in extractLength: 
Expected             exception: "MessageParseError" not thrown
    FAILURE: 1 out of 53 tests failed (1 failures).
    Test time: 1.04 seconds.

and ...

    [bsd@cto test]$ ./runut_ruby 5000
    Loaded suite test/TestSuite
    Started
    ./test/DataDictionaryTestCase.rb:112: [BUG] Segmentation fault
    ruby 1.8.7 (2008-06-20 patchlevel 22) [i486-linux]

    ./test.sh: line 6:  2620 Aborted                 ruby -I 
../../lib/ruby test/TestSuite.rb

On Debian/Linux, I have GCC/G++ 4.3.1 (I appropriately, have added the 
requisite headers, per ISO C++0X standard) and on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT, I 
have GCC/G++ 4.2.1 in the base system. I also attempted to try STLPort 
but to a no avail.

In addition to above, I have observed that the autotools/automake for 
the current and, or development version of quickfix needs a heavy 
overhaul, particularly the _configure.in_ is not intelligent enough to 
locate and, or resolve installed jdk, python, mysql, postgresql and, or 
odbc packages.

Here at http://cto.homelinux.net/git?p=quickfix.git;a=shortlog, is a git 
shortlog on how I have been trying to make it (the SVN head) work on 
both the Linux and FreeBSD systems.

I'm sorry, I'm busy a bit this weekend, but I shall try making/merging 
so many commits into a minimum possible patch-sets soon. Please, don't 
ask why I prefer GIT over SVN and, or other Source Code 
Management/monitoring systems.

Awaiting for your valuable comments.

Thanks,
Regards,

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Dr Balwinder S "bsd" Dheeman <http://cto.homelinux.net/%7Ebsd/>
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