[rfc][icedtea-web] C++ unit tests support for ITW :D

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

On 11/20/2012 04:05 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> - Two new folders in tests/, UnitTest++ and cpp-unit-tests.
>     - UnitTest++ contains the source of UnitTest++ (minus test cases
> which I decided to not copy over for simplicity). The makefile provided
> is not used, instead a simple for loop over the source is used to
> compile it in the target for the library. Feel free to advise ways to
> improve this.

Was there any particular reason why you chose to bundle UnitTest++
instead of using it as a library? Bundling generally causes problems
down the line. Many developers [0][1] and distributions [2][3][4] are
not happy with it.

Thanks,
Omair

[0]
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/03/bundling-libraries-the-curse-of-the-ancients
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/450595/
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#s-embeddedfiles
[3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries
[4] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Why_not_bundle_dependencies

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