I had some extra time, so I decided to redo Ahven's website layout.
I am not a graphics designer and therefore I used a free CSS template
from oswd.org.

I recently released Ahven 1.7. Please see the SourceForge download page for the source code.

I decided to move Ahven’s source code repository and issue tracker to Bitbucket. This is because during a last few months I haven’t been able to access Sourceforge’s Mercurial repositories occasionally.

All this time I have maintained mirror of the repository at Bitbucket and so far it has been more stable to me. In addition, it was easier to setup commit notifications for Bitbucket repositories.

I apologize all the trouble with the constant change of Ahven’s services, but hopefully things stabilize at some point.

I made yet another change to Ahven's hosting settings.
Since Sourceforge added support for Mercurial, I took advantage of the change
and started using Mercurial instead of CVS.

Now I need to install/update Mercurial separately every time when I (re)install
or upgrade my OS, but Mercurial is much easier to use than Subversion or CVS,
so it is worth the trouble.

I changed the hosting of Ahven from Gna to SourceForge.net.
While SourceForge is pretty slow to use, it is generally more
reliable than Gna.

I also changed version control from SVN to CVS. This is because
OpenBSD comes with CVS installed by default and I have one
program less to install when I am developing Ahven.

Unfortunately, I messed up the first sf.net release of Ahven (version 1.5)
and I had to release Ahven 1.6 quickly after 1.5.

Gna's homepages at http://home.gna.org and downloads
at http://download.gna.org seem to be down at the moment.

Hopefully, the administrators will get them back up soon.

Because of various problems with Gna I have also been considered
other places to host Ahven, but so far I haven't found anything better
than it.

The service should be preferably in West/East Europe, Canada, or
South America and offer CVS/Subversion/Mercurial hosting, plain
file downloads, space for a home page, and a bug tracker.
Wiki is a bonus. Bitbucket has been promising, but it doesn't
offer a home page or plain file downloads yet.

I released Ahven 1.4 two days ago. You can get it from the normal place.

To play around with Mercurial, I converted Ahven's Subversion repository
into Mercurial repository and placed it at bitbucket.org. This repository
is not official by any means and it is kept in sync manually, so there is
a high propability that the repositories are somewhat out of sync now and then.

I recently converted almost all Unbounded_String elements to Ahven.VStrings.VString elements.
The change preserves the API signatures, but changes the semantics a little. From now on,
all (test/routine) names longer than 160 characters will be rejected and Constraint_Error
is thrown when the test cases are ran.

This might cause some problems, but the change was done because Janus/Ada 3.1.1d had
some problems with Unbounded_Strings and I wanted to allow Ahven to be used with Janus/Ada.
Most likely the problems will be fixed in the next stable release Janus/Ada, but until then
I will use my VString type.

Btw, the VString type looks like this:
   subtype VString_Size is Integer range 0 .. VString_Max_Size;

   type VString (Len : VString_Size := VString_Size'Last) is private;
   ...
private
   type VString (Len : VString_Size := VString_Size'Last) is record
      Data : String (1 .. Len) := (others => ' ');
   end record;

Google reveals that similar type is used in quite a many places.

I added a new runner which output test results in Test Anything Protocol (TAP) format.
In addition, the new runner does not (explicitly) use heap memory, so it behaves better
with Janus/Ada 3.1.1d (which sometimes causes strange heap overflow errors for heap
memory allocations).

Example output:

I recently removed Test_Result type from the Ahven.Framework package
and made the Ahven.Framework.Run procedures to take the Listener object
directly. This change affects you only if you have "listened" the test results
via your own listeners. In that case, you need to either pass your listener
directly to the procedures or create a wrapper for multiple listeners and
dispatch calls from that wrapper.

In the past the Test_Result type was that wrapper, but I was able to
simplify the code a lot without reducing existing functionality by removing it.

I released Ahven 1.3 a few days ago.

Please check the release notes and download the source code.

I decided to make Ahven to work with Janus/Ada by replacing
generic linked list with multiple non-generic equivalents. This makes
code bigger, but avoids big API changes.

The patch is available at Ahven's source code repository.