Changes in this release:
* Added two new manual pages, atf-c++-api and atf-sh-api, describing the
C++ and POSIX shell interfaces used to write test programs.
* Added a pkg-config file, useful to get the flags to build against the
C++ library or to easily detect the presence of ATF.
* Added a way for test cases to require a specific architecture and/or
machine type through the new 'require.arch' and 'require.machine'
meta-data properties, respectively.
* Added the 'timeout' property to test cases, useful to set an upper-bound
limit for the test's run time and thus prevent global test program stalls
due to the test case's misbehavior.
* Added the atf-exec(1) internal utility, used to execute a command after
changing the process group it belongs to.
* Added the atf-killpg(1) internal utility, used to kill process groups.
* Multiple portability fixes. Of special interest, full support for SunOS
(Solaris Express Developer Edition 2007/09) using the Sun Studio 12 C++
compiler.
* Fixed a serious bug that prevented atf-run(1) from working at all under
Fedora 8 x86_64. Due to the nature of the bug, other platforms were
likely affected too.
Initial import of the Automated Testing Framework, version 0.3, a project
that provides a framework to easily implement test cases for the NetBSD
operating system and some tools to run them and generate reports with the
results.
Note that this is just the framework (libraries and tools), which is and
will be maintained externally. The tests themselves will come later, will
be put under the 'tests' hierarchy and will be managed exclusively under
the NetBSD CVS tree given that they are tied to the operating system.
The work done until version 0.1 was sponsored by the Google Summer of Code
2007 program and mentored by martin@.
jmmv