Hi All,

Just thought I would let you know I successfully ported the DUnit2 code to Free Pascal. FPCUnit has some nice features and is included with FPC, but in its current state, there are some major headaches (defects). Michael Van Canneyt is going to work on fixing up FPCUnit (and I'll try and help where I can), but I thought it quicker to simply port DUnit2 - Peter McNab seems to have done some excellent work with it.

The DUnit2 port also includes the XML results listener and the Text Test Runner (no working GUI Test Runner yet - well I haven't tested it really). Some small sample test cases shows that the test framework is working, but an exhaustive test suite still needs to be applied - like the tiOPF test suite. Any help with testing the framework would be much appreciated. I'll start putting together a self-testing test suite as well.

The original DUnit2 code is hosted in the tiOPF repository, but I did not want to make changes there because other projects outside the tiOPF might be using it. So I folked the project and am currently hosting it on GitHub.

Some major things I have done to DUnit2 so far:

* No need for Delphi.NET support. The product doesn't exist any more and .NET has its own testing framework anyway, called NUnit.
* Don't need prior to Delphi 7 support - it's time to upgrade or switch to FPC compiler.
* Must have Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) support.
* With FPC support comes the idea that it must be cross-platform friendly as well.
* Hence the next item - removing the idea of writing to the Windows Registry. INI or XML config files to a great job, are easy to edit and works for all OS platforms.
* Removed Jedi JCL dependencies. My thoughts were that memory leak detection is more important in your actual project, not the test suite. But I could be wrong - raise your hands if you disagree.

Other things I still need to do is neaten up the cross-compiler (FPC & Delphi) support - there are a few "ifdef FPC else..." cases. Plus Delphi testing must still be done but I can't see any issues there.

Overall, I think I got the bulk of the work done. What's left is testing with a bigger test suite and making sure dreaded FPCUnit issues don't appear (Test Decorators being on the top of my list).

So I welcome anybody to give the code a try and put it through its paces. That way all potential defects could be ironed out in a short time as possible. Any patches or suggestions are welcome. ;-)

To pull a copy for yourself.

    $ git clone git://github.com/graemeg/dunit2.git dunit2

And if you are stuck behind a firewall you can do the following, but I suggest you ask your network admin to poke a hole in the firewall (port 9418). The 'git' protocol is a LOT faster and efficient than HTTP. Anyway, there is the HTTP alternative.

    $ git clone http://github.com/graemeg/dunit2.git dunit2

Regards,
- Graeme -