[LLVMdev] Any objections to my importing GoogleMock to go with GoogleTest in LLVM?

Chandler Carruth chandlerc at google.com
Thu Nov 14 03:08:13 PST 2013


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Reid Kleckner <rnk at google.com> wrote:

> I don't really have a strong opinion, but it ended up being fairly
> controversial in Chromium:
>
> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-dev/-KH_IP0rIWQ
>
> It might occupy a space like GTest does for us today, which is used for
> things like Support where we often can't write a good lit test.
>

I think that's exactly the role for it. It's not going to suddenly become a
panacea (it never was) and is much less likely to become misused in LLVM
than a project like Chrome because *so* much of the code is readily tested
via nice integration tests with lit and FileCheck
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