[ODE] Latest Commit

[Jon Watte (ODE)]

Congratulations, you won an award for self-punishment! Honestly, though, 
even among indies, I'd estimate the percentage of shipping games that 
use MinGW to... counts on thumb... :-)


Seriously, though: In my world, unit testing is not anything optional. 
Ideally, unit tests get run each time compilation has finished, and 
break the compilation if the test fail. Having to download and install a 
secondary package to get that ability seems sub-optimal. A minimal 
framework which sits in a header seems a better choice.

What I've seen work pretty well is having unit tests register their 
factories using static construction, and a single function you call to 
run all of the unit tests. That way, the unit tests can be built into 
the DLL, and the "unit test runner" binary would just link against the 
DLL, and call the magic function. Making this binary run as a post-build 
step would be quite trivial even in MSDEV syntax (and a no-brainer in Make).

Cheers,

			/ h+


Rodrigo Hernandez wrote:
> Ouch!, and here I am, developing almost entirely on MinGW, hope my 
> customers never find out what a phony developer I am.