[Lazarus] lazarus unit test failures: 198 out of 257 fail

[Vincent Snijders]

2010/10/19 Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I don't know how frequent these are run or looked at, but I used
> yesterday's FPC 2.4.2rc1 and Lazarus 0.9.29 snapshot (that Vincent release)
> under Windows 2000, and got all these test failures...
>
> ------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <TestResults>
>  <!-- Generated using FPCUnit on 2010-10-19 13:27:38-->
>  <TestListing>
>    <TestSuite Name="All tests" ElapsedTime="00:07:18.470"
> NumberOfErrors="1" NumberOfFailures="197" NumberOfRunTests="257"
> NumberOfIgnoredTests="0">
>
> ....snip....
>
>     </TestSuite>
>    </TestSuite>
>  </TestListing>
>  <NumberOfRunTests>257</NumberOfRunTests>
>  <NumberOfErrors>1</NumberOfErrors>
>  <NumberOfFailures>197</NumberOfFailures>
>  <NumberOfIgnoredTests>0</NumberOfIgnoredTests>
>  <TotalElapsedTime>00:07:18.480</TotalElapsedTime>
>  <DateTimeRan>2010-10-19 13:34:56</DateTimeRan>
> </TestResults>
>

I just ran them on windows xp with fpc 2.5.1 and got 25 errors, not
unexpectedly since they were largely unmaintained. Most examples
simply only get tested when run during release preparations.

Vincent