Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Konrad, Martin via Core-talk" <[email protected]> · Thu, 18 Apr 2019 14:02:21 +0000

Hi Ralph,
> I am using gtest/gmock for a C++ Device Support module.
A significant fraction of our IOCs and support modules are talking to
devices over Ethernet and run on modern Linux machines; support for
VxWorks is not required. For this subset some of us are already
leveraging the latest language features (we are moving to C++17 now),
compilers and test frameworks. I think there is value in making it
easier for people to transition to these new tools. Being able to mix
traditional and new tests is an important part of this. Integration with
Jenkins is also important to many of us.

I'm not convinced EPICS Base is the perfect place for the Google Test
TAP listener (assuming that you didn't need to modify it adapt it to
EPICS). I'm wondering if we should just package it as a separate
package. Ubuntu (since 18.10) and the upcoming Debian buster have a
"googletest-tools" package. I'm wondering if it could be included into
this package in the long run. In the meantime including it in EPICS Base
might be an option. I would recommend to add a disclaimer that it might
get removed once there's a better way of distributing it.

-Martin

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Michigan State University
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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