Hi Alan, > I confirm that. I found identical qsastime_test results and identical x29 > PostScript driver results for revision 9458 compared to previous on my Linux > (Debian testing) platform. > I would propose a new test: if a change is done in the PLplot core and output of examples changes as well the tests will not show this issue. So I would propose that we run all examples now and save the ps files and upload them somewhere. We should add another test to the tests, so if these "correct" plots are found somewhere the C output is compared to these plots for changes. So changes due to PLplot core coding would show up. If this changes are deliberately we'll save a new set of plots. I wouldn't add theses plots to the src packages, since this would only be needed for thoroughly testing of the library. In addition, it would then also be possible to compare results between the different platforms. So far we don't know if the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux port produce the same output.
I have another proposal for the test as well: so far we only test what happens if we successfully run an example. But what happens if PLplot aborts or exits because of some problem? A well written library should have freed all memory, shouldn't crash and so on. So it would be nice to have an example which aborts and exits for various reason (e.g. depending on a command line option). Such an example would not produce any output and may only be useful in combination with a debugger or valgrind, but we should think about such an "example", or? Regards, Werner -- Dr. Werner Smekal Institut fuer Allgemeine Physik Technische Universitaet Wien Wiedner Hauptstr 8-10 A-1040 Wien Austria DVR-Nr: 0005886 email: sme...@iap.tuwien.ac.at web: http://www.iap.tuwien.ac.at/~smekal phone: +43-(0)1-58801-13463 (office) +43-(0)1-58801-13469 (laboratory) fax: +43-(0)1-58801-13499 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
