[Buildroot] [PATCH v2 4/4] gtest, gmock: Move download link away from Google Code

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Fri Jul 1 15:19:17 UTC 2016


Carlos, All,

On 2016-07-01 07:43 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> > On 2016-02-22 09:23 -0300, Carlos Santos spake thusly:
> >> Google Code is being shut down. The google code site which hosts the
> >> source .zip for gtest and gmock references github.com/google/googletest,
> >> now.
> >> 
> >> Change the GTEST_SITE and GMOCK_SITE to this new github repo, fix the
> >> version, fix the paths, and remove the custom extraction commands.
[--SNIP--]
> > As I understand it, gtest and gmock are being phased out as separate
> > packages, and are to be replaced with the googletest package.
> > 
> > So why don't we directly add "googletest" and get rid of gtest and
> > gmock, rather than fix them to eventually get rid of them?
> 
> Because we (DATACOM) have have a hundred packages in our BR2_EXTERNAL
> that depend on GMock and GTest as separate packages. It will take some
> time migrate them.

OK, but since gtest and gmock ar estill available from gcode, we can keep
them as-is for now, especially since changing their location require
that we get some invasive changes.

> > I've marked this patch as rejected in our patchwork now, while waiting
> > for the patches that add googletest and then removes gtest/gmock as
> > separate packages.
> 
> OK, I will keep it as a local change while working on the new package.

OK, thanks!

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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