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<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'devel' into ci/doxygen</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T16:32:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf</name>
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<published>2026-11-15T16:32:49+00:00</published>
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<title>Build the Doxygen reference in CI and fail on warnings</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T14:18:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-15T14:18:46+00:00</published>
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The Doxyfile had never run in CI, and its warnings went to a log file.

- It reads the headers only (*.hpp): Doxygen cannot match the explicit
  specializations of StringMaker and the PImpl constructors defined in the
  sources to their declarations, which gave ten of its twelve warnings.
- src/Progmasoft/Catch3/Internal/Preprocessor.hpp is left out: Doxygen reads
  priority_tag&lt;N&gt; deriving from priority_tag&lt;N - 1&gt; as a recursive class.
- WARN_AS_ERROR = FAIL_ON_WARNINGS, warnings on standard error.
- DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 200, so the include graph of All.hpp (103 nodes)
  is drawn; DOT_MULTI_TARGETS, which Doxygen 1.18 no longer knows, is gone.
- .github/workflows/doxygen.yml installs Doxygen and Graphviz, builds the
  reference and keeps the HTML.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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The Doxyfile had never run in CI, and its warnings went to a log file.

- It reads the headers only (*.hpp): Doxygen cannot match the explicit
  specializations of StringMaker and the PImpl constructors defined in the
  sources to their declarations, which gave ten of its twelve warnings.
- src/Progmasoft/Catch3/Internal/Preprocessor.hpp is left out: Doxygen reads
  priority_tag&lt;N&gt; deriving from priority_tag&lt;N - 1&gt; as a recursive class.
- WARN_AS_ERROR = FAIL_ON_WARNINGS, warnings on standard error.
- DOT_GRAPH_MAX_NODES = 200, so the include graph of All.hpp (103 nodes)
  is drawn; DOT_MULTI_TARGETS, which Doxygen 1.18 no longer knows, is gone.
- .github/workflows/doxygen.yml installs Doxygen and Graphviz, builds the
  reference and keeps the HTML.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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<entry>
<title>Drop references to the former compiler from two comments</title>
<updated>2026-11-15T09:07:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-11-15T09:07:30+00:00</published>
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The macOS workflow and RepositoryReport.hpp explained themselves by another project; they now say what they do: macOS gets one job, and the JSON report uses the field names of RepositoryReport in camelCase.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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The macOS workflow and RepositoryReport.hpp explained themselves by another project; they now say what they do: macOS gets one job, and the JSON report uses the field names of RepositoryReport in camelCase.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ji7xZMYjc4zankoc7hGBE1
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<entry>
<title>Keep per-test coverage with --coverage (roadmap step 4)</title>
<updated>2026-11-13T04:46:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<published>2026-11-13T04:46:08+00:00</published>
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--coverage=DIR runs every attempt in a process of its own and keeps the
coverage of each test, for binaries built with LLVM source-based
coverage (Clang: -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping) or gcov
(GCC: --coverage).

How it works:

- The scheduler gives each attempt a fresh worker, as --isolate does,
  and sets LLVM_PROFILE_FILE and GCOV_PREFIX for it: the profile the
  process writes at exit is then the coverage of that one test, in
  DIR/profiles/t&lt;index&gt;-a&lt;attempt&gt;.profraw or a .gcov directory. Each
  runtime reads its own variable, so no symbol of either runtime is
  looked up: weak references would not pull them out of their static
  archives, and Mach-O does not allow undefined weak symbols.
- A process that runs other tests first (bisection) writes beside the
  profiles, never into one. The attempt records its profile, also in
  the JSON results.
- The profiles of an earlier run are removed when the run starts,
  because gcov adds to the .gcda files it finds.
- After the run, CoverageReport reads the last profile of every test:
  llvm-profdata and llvm-cov (PATH, xcrun on macOS, or
  CATCH3_LLVM_PROFDATA / CATCH3_LLVM_COV) export LCOV, gcov (or
  CATCH3_GCOV) writes JSON next to a copy of the .gcno. The result is
  DIR/coverage.json, the files, lines and branches each test reached,
  and DIR/coverage.lcov for the whole run. Without the tools the
  profiles stay and the run says so.
- --coverage with --in-process or --break is refused.

Tests: option parsing, LCOV reading and writing, gcov JSON, and an
integration test on CoverageFixture, a binary CMake builds with the
coverage flags of Clang or GCC: two tests reach different lines, each
map holds only its own, the LCOV report holds both, and a stale profile
of an earlier run is gone. Locally all 84 CTest tests pass with Clang,
and the coverage tests pass with GCC (built with
CATCH3_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF: Catch3 does not build with GCC's warnings as
errors, before and after this change).

CI: the Linux jobs install LLVM's coverage tools, a new job checks the
gcov path with GCC, and CATCH3_COVERAGE_REQUIRE_MAP turns a missing map
into a failure on Linux and macOS instead of a skip. MSVC has no
source-based coverage, so its builds skip those tests; the roadmap
lists step 4 as in progress until Windows with clang-cl is tested.
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--coverage=DIR runs every attempt in a process of its own and keeps the
coverage of each test, for binaries built with LLVM source-based
coverage (Clang: -fprofile-instr-generate -fcoverage-mapping) or gcov
(GCC: --coverage).

How it works:

- The scheduler gives each attempt a fresh worker, as --isolate does,
  and sets LLVM_PROFILE_FILE and GCOV_PREFIX for it: the profile the
  process writes at exit is then the coverage of that one test, in
  DIR/profiles/t&lt;index&gt;-a&lt;attempt&gt;.profraw or a .gcov directory. Each
  runtime reads its own variable, so no symbol of either runtime is
  looked up: weak references would not pull them out of their static
  archives, and Mach-O does not allow undefined weak symbols.
- A process that runs other tests first (bisection) writes beside the
  profiles, never into one. The attempt records its profile, also in
  the JSON results.
- The profiles of an earlier run are removed when the run starts,
  because gcov adds to the .gcda files it finds.
- After the run, CoverageReport reads the last profile of every test:
  llvm-profdata and llvm-cov (PATH, xcrun on macOS, or
  CATCH3_LLVM_PROFDATA / CATCH3_LLVM_COV) export LCOV, gcov (or
  CATCH3_GCOV) writes JSON next to a copy of the .gcno. The result is
  DIR/coverage.json, the files, lines and branches each test reached,
  and DIR/coverage.lcov for the whole run. Without the tools the
  profiles stay and the run says so.
- --coverage with --in-process or --break is refused.

Tests: option parsing, LCOV reading and writing, gcov JSON, and an
integration test on CoverageFixture, a binary CMake builds with the
coverage flags of Clang or GCC: two tests reach different lines, each
map holds only its own, the LCOV report holds both, and a stale profile
of an earlier run is gone. Locally all 84 CTest tests pass with Clang,
and the coverage tests pass with GCC (built with
CATCH3_ENABLE_WERROR=OFF: Catch3 does not build with GCC's warnings as
errors, before and after this change).

CI: the Linux jobs install LLVM's coverage tools, a new job checks the
gcov path with GCC, and CATCH3_COVERAGE_REQUIRE_MAP turns a missing map
into a failure on Linux and macOS instead of a skip. MSVC has no
source-based coverage, so its builds skip those tests; the roadmap
lists step 4 as in progress until Windows with clang-cl is tested.
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<entry>
<title>Pin the CodeQL action to its v4.38.2 release</title>
<updated>2026-11-08T21:42:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-08T21:42:34+00:00</published>
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The init and analyze steps were pinned to 7999b86c, a commit no release tag
points at, with a "# v4" comment that names another commit (zizmor
ref-version-mismatch, two code-scanning alerts). Both steps now use
2892aa5e, the commit of v4.38.2, with that exact version as the comment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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The init and analyze steps were pinned to 7999b86c, a commit no release tag
points at, with a "# v4" comment that names another commit (zizmor
ref-version-mismatch, two code-scanning alerts). Both steps now use
2892aa5e, the commit of v4.38.2, with that exact version as the comment.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge devel into feature/cpp-tools</title>
<updated>2026-11-01T21:16:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-01T21:16:57+00:00</published>
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<title>Name the Bazel targets of the tools in snake_case</title>
<updated>2026-11-01T19:19:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-01T19:19:02+00:00</published>
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<title>Move the tools from Python to C++17 and Bazel</title>
<updated>2026-11-01T19:16:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-01T19:16:14+00:00</published>
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The scripts in use become programs run with `bazelisk run //tools:&lt;tool&gt;`,
and arguments follow `--`:

  amalgamate     the single-file distribution; --check only compares it
  check          licenses, convenience headers, header guards, file names,
                 versions and whether the distribution is up to date
  third-party    compares third_party/ with its archives, or writes it
  version        prints the version, or moves every place that states it
  release-notes  prints a section of the release notes
  repo-info      reports the checkout and the tools on PATH; --json writes
                 it through yyjson, with the fields of Tala's repo-info

amalgamate writes what the Python script wrote, byte for byte, except for
the time of generation. That line is gone so that the output is
deterministic and --check can compare it.

MODULE.bazel now pins the archives of third_party/ by version and sha256,
so Bazel fetches and checks them instead of a tool of ours, and Renovate
reads the versions there.

Scripts nobody used are gone: fixWhitespace, updateDocumentSnippets,
buildAndTest, and updateDocumentToC, which rewrote unrelated documents.
CheckConvenienceHeaders leaves CTest, since //tools:check runs it in CI.
The Python of tests/TestScripts stays: those are tests, not tools.
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The scripts in use become programs run with `bazelisk run //tools:&lt;tool&gt;`,
and arguments follow `--`:

  amalgamate     the single-file distribution; --check only compares it
  check          licenses, convenience headers, header guards, file names,
                 versions and whether the distribution is up to date
  third-party    compares third_party/ with its archives, or writes it
  version        prints the version, or moves every place that states it
  release-notes  prints a section of the release notes
  repo-info      reports the checkout and the tools on PATH; --json writes
                 it through yyjson, with the fields of Tala's repo-info

amalgamate writes what the Python script wrote, byte for byte, except for
the time of generation. That line is gone so that the output is
deterministic and --check can compare it.

MODULE.bazel now pins the archives of third_party/ by version and sha256,
so Bazel fetches and checks them instead of a tool of ours, and Renovate
reads the versions there.

Scripts nobody used are gone: fixWhitespace, updateDocumentSnippets,
buildAndTest, and updateDocumentToC, which rewrote unrelated documents.
CheckConvenienceHeaders leaves CTest, since //tools:check runs it in CI.
The Python of tests/TestScripts stays: those are tests, not tools.
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<title>Install again with CMake</title>
<updated>2026-11-01T18:46:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-11-01T18:46:59+00:00</published>
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cmake --install failed on extras/ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, which the
rename to Catch3 removed while CMakeLists.txt kept listing it. No job ran
an install, so nothing showed it. The Linux job now installs the library
and finds the installed package.

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cmake --install failed on extras/ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, which the
rename to Catch3 removed while CMakeLists.txt kept listing it. No job ran
an install, so nothing showed it. The Linux job now installs the library
and finds the installed package.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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<title>Say C++17 everywhere the project describes itself</title>
<updated>2026-10-31T21:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-31T21:25:59+00:00</published>
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The move to C++17 left a trail of older claims. The Runner's own
.clang-format still said c++20; the result is byte for byte the same under
either value. Premake and Xmake still compiled the library as C++20 and
the main library as C++14, which meant their CI jobs were not testing the
language the project promises. Both now use C++17 for every target.

The rest is text: the Meson pkg-config description claimed C++14, comments
in the CMake and Meson files explained requirements that no longer exist,
.clang-tidy gave C++14 as the reason for two exclusions, issue templates
asked for C++20 samples, and the example headers named -std=c++14 and
catch2-with-main. The release notes and the migration guide state the
C++17 minimum. Doxygen's brief called the project "Catch2's test API",
which presents it as Catch2. Meson declared only BSL-1.0; it now names both
licenses of the tree. The amalgamated files are regenerated.
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The move to C++17 left a trail of older claims. The Runner's own
.clang-format still said c++20; the result is byte for byte the same under
either value. Premake and Xmake still compiled the library as C++20 and
the main library as C++14, which meant their CI jobs were not testing the
language the project promises. Both now use C++17 for every target.

The rest is text: the Meson pkg-config description claimed C++14, comments
in the CMake and Meson files explained requirements that no longer exist,
.clang-tidy gave C++14 as the reason for two exclusions, issue templates
asked for C++20 samples, and the example headers named -std=c++14 and
catch2-with-main. The release notes and the migration guide state the
C++17 minimum. Doxygen's brief called the project "Catch2's test API",
which presents it as Catch2. Meson declared only BSL-1.0; it now names both
licenses of the tree. The amalgamated files are regenerated.
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