Added information about new fork of LibTAP++ that supports modern C++…

[nataraj-hates-MS-for-stealing-github]

… standards

Some time ago I've fixed libtapp to support modern C++ standards and filed a pull request to the upstream: cbab/libtappp#5

But this patch have never been applied and that fork is seems to be abandoned.

So I've created my own fork: https://gitlab.com/dhyannataraj/libtappp and applied patch there...

I suggest to use my fork by default if you do TAP testing of C++ projects.

That is why I am suggesting to change links at http://testanything.org to it.

[kinow]

Did you try contacting the author first? Is your fork being used in projects other than yours?

I'm asking this as I think this is the kind of question users for the current libtap++ could ask, and it is complicated to replace a library by its fork here without a library being adopted by others (e.g. someone could fork libtap++ now and raise another PR claiming they want their repository linked instead).

I am not sure what's the best way to handle cases like this, but IMHO if a) the author was contacted and either said they don't have bandwidth/time to maintain anymore or b) the new fork was adopted by other projects, then I think it'd be OK to replace/add another fork here.

[nataraj-hates-MS-for-stealing-github]

Did you try contacting the author first?

Yes. My pull request have been there for three years or more. cbab/libtappp#5
And now compilers from modern Debian simply refuses to work with libtapp as it was.
The project seems to be totally abandoned.

Is your fork being used in projects other than yours?

No, I guess TAP tests are not very popular among C++ developers.

My purpose here was to inform users that there exists a version of LibTAP++ that conforms modern C++ standards and can be freely used.

I am not happy about creating and maintaining that fork, but I do not see any other way. Old version does not work now.

You may find another way to word it, but if we do not publish that link on testanything.org nobody will know about that fork, and nobody will use it.