Gcovr

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- Adding the '--gcov-executable' option to specify
the name/location of the gcov executable. The command line option
overrides the environment variable, which overrides the default 'gcov'.
- Adding an empty "<methods/>" block to <classes/> in the XML output: this
makes out XML compliant with the Cobertura DTD. (3951)
- Allow the GCOV environment variable to override the default 'gcov'
executable. The default is to search the PATH for 'gcov' if the GCOV
environment variable is not set. (3950)
- Adding support for LCOV-style flags for excluding certain lines from
coverage analysis. (3942)
- Setup additional logic to test with Python 2.5.
- Added the --html and --html-details options to generate HTML.
- Sort output for XML to facilitate baseline tests.
- Added error when the --object-directory option specifies a bad directory.
- Added more flexible XML testing, which can ignore XML elements
that frequently change (e.g. timestamps).
- Added the '—xml-pretty' option, which is used to
generate pretty XML output for the user manual.
- Many documentation updates

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- New approach to walking the directory tree that is more robust to
symbolic links (3908)
- Normalize all reported path names

- Normalize using the full absolute path (3921)
- Attempt to resolve files referenced through symlinks to a common
project-relative path

- Process ``gcno`` files when there is no corresponding ``gcda`` file to
provide coverage information for unexecuted modules (3887)
- Windows compatibility fixes

- Fix for how we parse ``source:`` file names (3913)
- Better handling od EOL indicators (3920)

- Fix so that gcovr cleans up all ``.gcov`` files, even those filtered by
command line arguments
- Added compatibility with GCC 4.8 (3918)
- Added a check to warn users who specify an empty ``--root`` option (see 3917)
- Force ``gcov`` to run with en_US localization, so the gcovr parser runs
correctly on systems with non-English locales (3898, 3902).
- Segregate warning/error information onto the stderr stream (3924)
- Miscellaneous (Python 3.x) portability fixes
- Added the master svn revision number as part of the version identifier

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- Adding support for Python 3.x

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- Adding the ``--gcov-filter`` and ``--gcov-exclude`` options.

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- Added a test driver for gcovr.
- Improved estimation of the ``<sources>`` element when using gcovr with filters.
- Added revision and date keywords to gcovr so it is easier to identify
what version of the script users are using (especially when they are
running a snapshot from trunk).
- Addressed special case mentioned in [comment:ticket:3884:1]: do not
truncate the reported file name if the filter does not start matching
at the beginning of the string.
- Overhaul of the ``--root`` / ``--filter`` logic. This should resolve the
issue raised in 3884, along with the more general filter issue
raised in [comment:ticket:3884:1]
- Overhaul of gcovr's logic for determining gcc/g++'s original working
directory. This resolves issues introduced in the original
implementation of ``--object-directory`` (3872, 3883).
- Bugfix: gcovr was only including a ``<sources>`` element in the XML
report if the user specified ``-r`` (3869)
- Adding timestamp and version attributes to the gcovr XML report (see
3877). It looks like the standard Cobertura output reports number of
seconds since the epoch for the timestamp and a doted decimal version
string. Now, gcovr reports seconds since the epoch and
"``gcovr ``"+``__version__`` (e.g. "gcovr 2.2") to differentiate it
from a pure Cobertura report.

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- Added the ``--object-directory`` option, which allows for a flexible
specification of the directory that contains the objects generated by
gcov.
- Adding fix to compare the absolute path of a filename to an exclusion
pattern.
- Adding error checking when no coverage results are found. The line and
branch counts can be zero.
- Adding logic to process the ``-o``/``--output`` option (3870).
- Adding patch to scan for lines that look like::

creating `foo'

as well as
::

creating 'foo'

- Changing the semantics for EOL to be portable for MS Windows.
- Add attributes to xml format so that it could be used by hudson/bamboo with
cobertura plug-in.