Vendor gtest in template or use catch?
drbenmorgan opened this issue · comments
The template project uses find_package(gtest) for locating tests, but the recommendation by the guest developers is to vendor it in the client project. Should the template project thus include a vendored copy of gtest? This appears to be pretty straightforward - just copy the sources in, add a library target, link tests to it.
The other option would be to use the catch framework, which appears to provide very similar functionality, and can be used a a single header file.
Copying in would make it rather heavy. Catch seems a good one indeed. I wouldn't object moving to that one instead. Do you have hands-on experience with it?
I've used Catch in a postgrad teaching course with good experience and feedback, so I feel it's a good one for projects to start with, especially at this template level.
I can't speak for whether it offers greater or lesser features than other frameworks, but I guess that's more a task for documentation.
thanks. skimming what I could find it looks nice for small projects. Could you make a pull request to show how it would look like in this concrete case?
I played a little bit with catch and I in the meantime migrated two projects to using it. Really nice and lightweight
Marking this as closed as Catch was integrated in PR #9