New dependency for unit testing: Googlemock

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Fri Jan 29 00:43:30 CET 2010


On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Maximilian Kossick
<maximilian.kossick at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I've added two unit tests that use mocks generated with Google's
> opensource mock library. I'd like to add that library as build/run
> time dependency for the unit tests. Only users that build the unit
> tests with KDE4_BUILD_TESTS = ON will need that library. Are there any
> objections to adding that dependency?

Sounds fine to me, as this library is BSD licensed. It's not packaged
in my distro, but that shouldn't be a huge hurdle for us developers, I
guess.


FWIW, here is the lib's home page:

http://code.google.com/p/googlemock/

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Mark Kretschmann
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