On Nov 29, 2013, at 8:36 AM, Andrew Ross <andrewr...@users.sourceforge.net> 
wrote:

> 
> Alan,
> 
> Thanks for this. Once my example 22 changes are finished I intend
> doing some testing too on my Ubuntu system (and hopefully on Debian
> unstable). I agree we're still on track for 14th December release.
> 
> See comments below about example 22 progress.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:56:10PM -0800, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>> Earlier today, I finished up the last of my planned test improvements
>> (extending the interactive testing done for the traditional build of
>> the installed examples to be comparable to the Tcl/Tk CMake-based
>> testing that is done for the core build tree and the installed
>> examples tree).
>> 
>> To establish a testing benchmark for the runup to the 5.9.11 release 
>> on December 14th (two weeks from this Saturday) I ran
>> scripts/comprehensive_test.sh with no options (i.e., everything
>> default so a full suite of tests was done, i.e., ctest, "make
>> test_noninteractive", and "make test_interactive in the build tree,
>> and the latter two for the two build systems for the installed
>> examples tree for each of our three major configurations (shared
>> libs/dynamic devices, shared libs/non-dynamic devices, and static
>> libs/non-dynamic devices).
>> 
>> There were no obvious build or run-time issues with any of these large
>> number of tests.  So that is a great benchmark test result on Debian
>> stable, and I hope others here will also do comprehensive testing in
>> the next few days for the platforms they have access to in order to
>> establish test benchmarks for those platforms.  Such benchmarks for
>> all platforms are important a couple of weeks before release to help
>> guard against any regressions that may occur between now and release
>> due to further changes.
>> 
>> Note that thanks to Arjen's recent nopause work for Tcl and friends,
>> the test_interactive targets are much easier to run now with
>> relatively little clicking required by the user.  So comprehensive
>> testing is getting to be quiet convenient, and there are no excuses
>> not to do it. :-)
>> 
>> With regard to actual results I obtained with the set of comprehensive
>> tests today, the diff issues have been reduced to the following thanks
>> to all of Andrew's recent example 22 propagation efforts,
>> 
>> f95
>>   Missing examples            :
>>   Differing postscript output :  22
>>   Missing stdout              :
>>   Differing stdout            : 
> 
> The example has been updated. The difference is because f95 version of
> plshades does not support the rect argument. Once that is done
> (Arjen?) it is a one line fix.
> 
>> tcl
>>   Missing examples            :
>>   Differing postscript output :  22
>>   Missing stdout              :
>>   Differing stdout            : 
>> ada
>>   Missing examples            :
>>   Differing postscript output :  22
>>   Missing stdout              :
>>   Differing stdout            : 
>> adathick
>>   Missing examples            :
>>   Differing postscript output :  22
>>   Missing stdout              :
>>   Differing stdout            : 
>> ocaml
>>   Missing examples            :
>>   Differing postscript output :  16 22 33
>>   Missing stdout              :
>>   Differing stdout            :
>> 
>> I expect those differences will be substantially reduced or even
>> eliminated in the next few days if everyone cooperates for their
>> favorite language(s) that still have remaining propagation issues.
>> 
> 
> The remaining languages need updating. I will look at tcl next. I am
> assuming Hez will take on the ocaml changes along with the changes to
> examples 16 and 33. If someone is able to look at ada that would be
> great, otherwise I'll try and get round to it, but my ada knowledge is
> pretty hazy.

I plan to get to this (Ada).
Jerry

> 
> Andrew
> 
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