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  New in CppUnit 1.14.0:
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  - TestCaller supports any callable that can be put into
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    std::function<void()>.
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  - CPPUNIT_TEST_PARAMETERIZED executes a test for any value in
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    an iteratable.
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  - Added new Assertion macros: ASSERT_LESS, ASSERT_GREATER,
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                    ASSERT_LESSEQUAL, ASSERT_GREATEREQUAL
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* Portability:
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  - Always build with C++11.
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  - Always require RTTI support.
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  - Removed support for compilers that don't support
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    default template arguments with standard containers.
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  - Removed portability headers for wrapper around
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    standard containers.
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  - Support C++11 enum class in asserter.
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* Test Plug-in Runner: 
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  - Fixed crash on Win64 in test runner (fdo#81433)
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* Removed features
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  - QT test runner
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  - msvc6 test runners
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  - msvc6 plugin
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  - BeOS support
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  New in CppUnit 1.13.2:
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* Portability:
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  - Supports 64 bit build on windows
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  - Report errors from dlopen and dlclose through dlerror on
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    unix/linux.
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  New in CppUnit 1.13.1:
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* Portability:
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  - Use portable way to use free (fdo#52536)
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  - Prevent crash when demangling fails with gcc (fdo#52539)
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  New in CppUnit 1.13.0:
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* Portability:
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  - Added support for macro CPPUNIT_UNIQUE_COUNTER to config-*.h. It
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    should expands to a unique number per translation unit. Default
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    to __LINE__ if not defined. Use __COUNTER__ on MSVS 7.0+.
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    (Bug #2031696)
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* Compilation
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  - destructor of Message causes segfault when testing (rhbz#641350)
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  - use correct CPPUNIT_VERSION value (sf#2983798)
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  - allow -Werror builds
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    (various Libreoffice patches)
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  - finite in "ieeefp.h" instead of math.h on Solaris (sf#2912590)
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  - Fixed compilation issue with Microsoft Visual Studio.Net 2005/2008 and
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    added Visual Studio 2005/2010  projects (.vcproj/.vcxproj)
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  - Changes to build without warnings using gcc -Wall -W -ansi 
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    (patch #1898225 contributed by dpkatz)
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  - Libraries flags such as "-ldl" are now in LDADD instead of LIBADD_DL
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    ( patch #2807259 contributed by Jan Echternach).
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  - Fixed detection of cxxabi.h with gcc 4.3 in configure (bug #2796543).
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  - made TestCaseDecorator copy c'tor and operator= private (fdo#51317)
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* Documentation
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  - Updated several false documentation entries (sf#2185407, sf#2186611)
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* Test Plug-in Runner: 
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  - fixed memory leak in TestPlugInRunnerDlg (#1721408)
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  New in CppUnit 1.12.1:
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* Assertion:
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  - CPPUNIT_ASSERT_DOUBLES_EQUAL() now properly handles non-finite
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    values, specifically NaN, +Inf, and -Inf.
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* Portability: 
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  - Fixed some compilation issue for QtTestRunner.
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  - Code should build on Windows in UNICODE mode.
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  New in CppUnit 1.12.0:
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* Portability:
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  - autogen.sh can now be run on Mac OS X (patch #1449380
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    contributed by Sander Temme).
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* MFC Test runner:
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  - fixed bug #1498175: double click on failure would sometime 
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    not goto failed assertion in visual studio.
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* Documentation:
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  - now generated with doxygen 1.4.7 new 'tabs' style.
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  New in CppUnit 1.11.4:
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* Portability:
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  - Support for Embedded Visual C++ 4 added. For this purpose, CppUnit now
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    provides a very simple stream implementation if none is provided.
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    This should also help porting on other platforms which have STL but
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    no stream support. Just make sure that CPPUNIT_NO_STREAM is defined
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    to 1 in your config header.
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* Assertion:
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  - Added missing _MESSAGE variants for the following assertions:
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_DOUBLES_EQUAL_MESSAGE
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_THROW_MESSAGE
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_NO_THROW_MESSAGE
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_ASSERTION_FAIL_MESSAGE
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_ASSERTION_PASS_MESSAGE
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    Notes: change made to CPPUNIT_ASSERT_THROW may cause compilation error 
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    if you're expecting std::exception as it would be caught twice. Contact us
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    if it is an issue (we don't see much use for such a test).
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    Some assertions failure message are now more detailed (exception, 
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    expression).
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    Thanks to Neil Ferguson who contributed this patch.
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  - Assertion on real number now output expected and actual value using the
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    maximum available precision instead of the previous strategy of rounding 
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    to 6 digits.
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    Thanks to Neil Ferguson who contributed this patch.
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* Outputter:
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  - XML Ouputter: patch #997006 contributed by Akos Maroy makes the
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    'stand-alone' attribute of the XML header optional. 
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    See XmlOutputter::setStandalone() & XmlDocument::setStandalone().
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  - Better integration of compiler output for gcc on Mac OS X with Xcode
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    (contributed by Claus Broch).
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* MFC Test Runner
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  - Integration with VC++ 7.0 & 7.1. Double clicking on a failure will now
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    This was contributed by Max Quatember and Andreas Pfaffenbichler.
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  - Progress bar: now use system color to draw border 
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    (patch from bug #1165875 contributed by Pieter Van Dyck).
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* QT Test Runner
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  - Fixed display of multi-line messages (patch contributed by Karol Szkudlarek).
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* Compilation:
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  - The standard pkg-config file is now generated on unix (contributed by 
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    Robert Leight).
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  - MinGW: patch #1024428 contributed by astar, fixed compilation issue in
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    Win32DynamicLibraryManager.cpp.
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  - MinGW, cygwin: enable build of shared library when using libtool. 
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    patch #1194394 contributed by Stéphane Fillod.
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  - autotool: applied patch #1076398 contributed by Henner Sudek. Quote:
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		 "This patch allows AM_PATH_CPPUNIT to accept version
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		numbers without minor and micro version.
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		Now you can do:
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		AM_PATH_CPPUNIT(1.9)
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		instead of
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		AM_PATH_CPPUNIT(1.9.0)"
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  - Visual Studio 2005: removed deprecated warning.
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* Documentation:
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  - Corrected many typos in cookbook and money example. Thanks to all
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    those who helped !
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* Bug Fix:
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  - cppunit.m4: patch #946302, AM_PATH_CPPUNIT doesn't report result 
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    if CppUnit is missing.
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  - Message/SourceLine: copy constructor have been specifically implemented
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    to ensure they are thread-safe even if std::string copy constructor
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    is not (usually on reference count based implementation).
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  - TestResultCollector: fixed memory leak occuring when calling reset().
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* Contrib:
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  - added XSLT for compatibility with Ant junit xml formatter.
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    Patch #1112053 contributed by Norbert Barbosa.
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    See xml-xsl/cppunit2junit.xsl and cppunit2junit.txt for details.
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  - xml-xsl/report.xsl has been fixed to work with current xml output.
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* (Possible) Compatiblity break:
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  - All text output is now done on cout() instead of sometime cerr & 
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    sometime cout depending on the component.
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  - OStringStream definition has been removed from Portability.h. This
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    means that <sstream> is no longer included, and that ostringstream and
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    string might not be defined. In practice this should have no impact 
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    since those includes have been moved to other CppUnit headers.
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* Notes:
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  - CppUnit now uses the alias OStream when refering to std::ostream for 
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    portability.
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  New in CppUnit 1.10.2:
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* Bug Fix:
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  - Memory checker: bug #938753, array bound read in 
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    splitPathString() with substr if an empty string is passed.
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  - Memory leaks: bug #952912, many memory leaks removed in the
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    MFC test plug-in runner.
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  - Crash when using CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_REGISTRATION with cppunit dll.
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    Bug #921843. This bug was caused by a known STL bug in VC++ 6. 
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    See http://www.dinkumware.com/vc_fixes.html <xtree> issue with shared
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    std::map in dll.
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* Compilation:
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  - mingw & cigwin, bug #930338 & #945737 fixed.
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  - make install does not work on SunOS. Bug #940650 fixed.
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  - bug #933154, post-build step fails in directory with spaces
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    with Visual C++.
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  - DllPlugInTester, bug #941625 (char * string literal). Applied patch
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    contribued by Curt Arnold.
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* Assertions
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  - Ported exception assertion macros from cppunit 2 to the 1.9.x series:
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_THROW, CPPUNIT_ASSERT_NO_THROW, 
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    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_ASSERTION_FAIL, CPPUNIT_ASSERT_ASSERTION_PASS.
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* Deprecated:
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  - The helper macros: CPPUNIT_TEST_FAIL & CPPUNIT_TEST_EXCEPTION have
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    been deprecated. Use the new exception assertion macros instead.
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* Bug Fix:
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  - cppunit-config: bug #903363, missing -ldl from the output of
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    cppunit-config --libs. Fixed thanks Eric Blossom patch.
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  - test plug-in(unix): Adding RTLD_GLOBAL allows test plug-ins 
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    to provide symbols to shared objects they load themselves.
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    Thanks goes to Gareth Sylvester for this patch (#816563).
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* Test Plug-in
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  - added support contributed support for UNIX systems that
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    have libdld and not libdl (e.g. hp-ux). Contributed by
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    Abdessattar Sassi.
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* RTTI
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  - TypeInfoHelper now used gcc c++ abi to demangle typeinfo name thanks to
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    Neil Ferguson contribution.
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* Bug Fix:
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  - MFC TestRunner: integrated bug fix from Tim Threlkeld for bug 
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    #610191 and #610162. Fixed assertion when minizing dialog 
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    (bug #643612).
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  - XMLOutputter: Fixed bug #676505: no space inserted between attributes
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    of XmlElement.
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  - CppUnit portability: fixed many mistakes relating to compilation
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    without type info or namespace reported by Philip Craig.
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  - Missing destructor with no throw specification for 
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    DynamicLibraryManagerException. Bug #619059.
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  - Fixed missing export for operator <<(TextTestResult). Bug #610119.
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  - Missing include for typeinfo in TestNamer.h. Bug #662666.
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* Compilation
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  - Fixed compilation issues for Borland C++ 6 and STLPort. Bug #694971,
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    #699794 and #662666.
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  - Fixed compilation issues for AIX.
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  - Fixed compilation issues for Visual C++ .NET 2002.
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  - Fixed doxygen usage in mingw environment (space not allowed in 
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    doxygen path). Bug #700730.
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  - Fixed compilation issue for mingw (bug #711583).
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  - Major portability improvement
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  - Protector
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  - HelperMacros
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  - MFC TestRunner bug fixes
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  - Failure diagnostic
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  - Asserter
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* Major portability improvement:
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  - Much work has been done to reduce C++ feature requirement to compile
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    CppUnit. It should now be possible to compile CppUnit on most 
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    compilers, as long as STL are available (in std namespace or not), 
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    with some form of strstream and iostream, as well as exception support.
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    See CodingGuideLines.txt for details.
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* Protector
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  - Protector can be passed to the TestResult to 'protect' call to
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    setUp(), runTest() and tearDown() method. With this, it is easy to
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    capture exceptions which do not have std::exception as a base class,
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    such as CException or RWXMsg for example. TestResult and Protector 
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    class documentation. Look at src/cppunit/DefaultProtector.cpp for
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    an example of implementation.
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* Helper macros
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  - Mostly rewritten. It no longer use TestSuiteBuilder. A new object
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    TestSuiteBuilderContext was introduced. It is used to name test case,
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    create test fixture instance and add test to the fixture suite. It
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    is now much more easier to add custom test cases using
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_ADD_CUSTOM_TESTS. Should also prevent most 
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    compability break concerning that macro.
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  - Useful typedef are now public: TestFixtureType, ParentTestFixtureType.
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       TestSuiteBuilderContextType;
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  - added support for abstract test fixture with
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_END_ABSTRACT(). See documentation for further
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    detail.
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* Failure diagnostic
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  - setUp() and tearDown() now provides a detailed diagnostic of the
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    failure (assertion, exception...)
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  - If RTTI is allowed to extract type info, CppUnit will report the
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    actual exception type in the diagnostic.
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* Asserter:
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  - A new AdditionalMessage class has been introduced. It is used for
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    assertion that takes an additional 'message' argument 
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    (CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE...). Since this macro has an implicit 
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    constructor that take a string, which creates a Message with the 
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    specified string as detail. That way, additional message can be a 
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    single string or a complex Message object. See documentation for 
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    example of use.
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* Bug Fix:
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  - MFC TestRunner: bug #530426 (conflict between TestRunner and host 
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    application's resources). A huge thanks to Steven Mitter for that one.
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  - MFC TestRunner: Browse button is now disabled while running test.
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* Deprecated
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  - CppUnit::TextUi::TestRunner moved to CppUnit::TextTestRunner.
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  - CppUnit::MfcUi::TestRunner moved to CppUnit::MfcTestRunner.
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  - CppUnit::QtUi::TestRunner moved to CppUnit::QtTestRunner.
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* Compatiblity break:
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  - CppUnitTextUi::TestRunner, removed runTestByName() and runTest().
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  - TestSuiteBuilder: removed templatized method 
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    addTestCallerForException(). See implementation of 
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_EXCEPTION implementation for an alternative.
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  - TestAssert: removed deprecated functions (those not using SourceLine) 
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    assertImplementation(), assertNotEqualImplementation(), 
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    assertEquals(). Moved non deprecated functions assertEquals() and
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    assertEquals() into CppUnit namespace.
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  - Plug-ins 'Parameters' typedef has been replaced by class 
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    PlugInParameters. The method commandLine() returns what used to be in
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    Parameters[0]. This should avoid future compatibility break when the 
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    parameters passing API will be defined.
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  - TestPlugIn::initialize() now takes a PlugInParameters in argument 
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    instead of a Parameters.
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  - template <class T> void assertEquals() no longer has a default message 
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    value (no impact, unless you used this function directly instead of
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    assertion macros).
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  - HelperMacros: renamed CPPUNIT_TEST_ADD to 
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_ADD_TEST.
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  - HelperMacros: removed CPPUNIT_TEST_CUSTOM. Instead use 
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_ADD_CUSTOM_TESTS and call context.addTest() 
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    passing the test that was returned.
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  - HelperMacros: renamed CPPUNIT_TEST_CUSTOMS to 
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    CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_ADD_CUSTOM_TESTS. Changed method signature to
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    You can replace the 3 previous parameters by context. (See 
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  - New custom test macros for fixture suite
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  - Exception message are now structured
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  - Added detail field to MFC TestRunner
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  - New XmlDocument class to easily create new XML output format
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  - XmlOutputter customization
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  - Test plug-in XMLOutputter hook
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  - ClockerPlugIn example includes test time in XML output
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* Exception message
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    Detail strings are used to provide more information about the failure. It
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* New XmlDocument class to easily create new XML output format
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* XmlOutputter customization
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  - Better (and cleaner) handling of windows resizing
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* Examples:
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* Bug Fix:
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  - MfcUi plug-in runner (TesTPlugInRunner): better handling of history when
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* Compatibility Break:
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  - Exception constructor takes a Message instead of a string. Notes that the
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* Deprecated:
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  - DllPlugInTester can be parametrized from command line
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  - Two test listener plug-in examples
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  - An 'hello world' example & getting started document : Money
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  - Contribution: generic makefile for Borland 5.5 free compiler.
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* DllPlugInTester:
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      cerr.
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      XML style sheet for XML Outputter
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    -e --encoding encoding
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      XML file encoding (UTF8, shift_jis, ISO-8859-1...)
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    -b --brief-progress
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      Use BriefTestProgressListener (default is TextTestProgressListener)
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    -n --no-progress
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      Show no test progress (disable default TextTestProgressListener)
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    -t --text
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      Use TextOutputter
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    filename[="options"]
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      Many filenames can be specified. They are the name of the 
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      test plug-ins to load. Optional plug-ins parameters can be 
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    [:testpath]
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    'parameters' (test plug-in or XML filename, test path...) may contains 
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    Some examples of command lines:
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    Will load 2 tests plug-ins (available in lib/), use the brief test
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    Will load the 2 test plug-ins, and pass the parameter string "flat"
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  - New getting started documentation. Not completed yet, but probably
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* Examples
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    a simple Money class.
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  - ClockerPlugIn (examples/ClockerPlugIn): a test listener plug-in 
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  - DumperPlugIn (examples/DumperPlugIn): a test listener plug-in that 
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    dump the test tree as it run. Paramater: "flat" for a reporting 
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* Contribution
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  - Makefile for CppUnit with Borland C++ 5.5 free compiler: does not
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* Compatiblity breaks
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  - DllPlugInTester: (1.9.4 only), should add -c to DllPlugInTester 
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* Bug Fix:
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  - BeosDynamicLibraryManager: fixed thanks to Shibu Yoshiki 
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  - Broken build on Unix should be fixed for most (thanks to 
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  New in CppUnit 1.9.4:
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  - More versatile, easier to make test plug-in.
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  - A PlugInManager to manage multiple test plug-ins.
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  - Crossplatform test plug-in runner.
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  - Crossplatform test plug-in example.
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  - A brief progress listener 
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  - Easier test hierarchy creation
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  - Tracking of test run start/end.
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* Buildling on Unix:
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  - I did not get any feed back on the previous build issue on Unix. Using
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    a simple autobook example was useless to try to solve the problem. Here
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  Since the test plug-in have been added, CppUnit use the function
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  Those functions apparently requires to link another library when
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  - linking against the said library for each example.
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  - generates the shared library for the examples/simple/simple_plugin 
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    and SimplePlugIn.cpp).
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  - if possible, makes the above optionnal if --disable-test-plug-in 
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    - don't compile the plug-in example
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    - add #define CPPUNIT_NO_TESTPLUGIN 1 to the config file
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  Contact me on the mailing-list for more details.
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* TestPlugIn:
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  test registered to the TestFactoryRegistry (it is what's hide behind
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  Using the TestFactoryRegistry provides much more flexiblity that
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  - CppUnit plug-in should be linked against the dll version of CppUnit library.
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  - Plug-in should register their tests using the CPPUNIT_TEST_SUITE_xxx macros.
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  - 'homemade' suite can still be registred to the TestFactoryRegistry that is
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     passed as parameter on plug-in initialization. Notes that you must 
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   destruction, the TestFactoryRegistry will attempt to destroy them... Your
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  - Plug-in can accept parameters on initialization (notes that the Parameters
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    object is far from being stabilized, but whatever form it takes, it will be
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  a list of string).
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  - Plug-in can register their one listener for a test run. This means that you
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  than you can listen to startTestRun()/endTestRun() to do some global
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  - Why all this fuss around test plug-in ? Test plug-in are the incarnation of
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* PlugInManager:
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* Crossplatform test plug-in runner (src/DllPlugInRunner):
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  - This application can be used to run your test plug-ins. It can load
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    multiple test plug-ins and run all or a specific test in the test
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  hierarchy returned by TestFactoryRegistry::getRegistry().makeTest().
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  - Plug-in loaded by the plug-in may also be custom TestListener.
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  - It can be use for post-build check and to debug the plug-in.
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  - Why use it? It keep you away from CppUnit API changes!
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  - added macros CPPUNIT_REGISTRY_ADD( which, to ) and 
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* Documentation:
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* Examples:
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* Contribution
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  - XML style sheet: transform CppUnit XML output into HTML.
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* Behavior changes:
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* Compatiblity Break for 1.9.2 users:
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  In short:
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* TestPlugIn:
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