On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:14:19AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> On a broader note, I've been using backend_driver.py as my ersatz
> "acceptance test suite." Not all of these examples are included in it,
> of course. Is there good reason for that, or should I go ahead and add
> these to backend_driver? As we're all well aware, matplotlib has an
> unusually large configuration space, so any bit of testing automation
> really helps.
We could store a copy of the png output somewhere in the svn tree. Then,
whenever we change something we can do a binary comparison on all the
plots. It would avoid issues such as breakage of polar plots where the
author of the changes didn't consider that it would affect polar plot
output. Similarly for ps/pdf. Differences in fonts between platforms
might be a problem in this scheme.
- Paul
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