Package: numdiff
Version: 5.9.0-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
While using numdiff for comparing across a bulk of results files I came
up with some wishes which I have shared with Paolo and we decided to cement
them in an official bug report.
I was whining about "clutter" in the output which could have been reduced in
favor of more concise diff summary. Here is an extract from our correspondence:
Me:
- 0 is == 0.00, so why not just to print 0 in those cases? ;)
- too many lines
why not instead of (changing for demo numbers not necessarily making
sense ;) )
Sum of all absolute errors:
0.00
Sum of the major absolute errors:
0.1123456677
...
give smth like
0 Sum of all absolute errors
0.1123456677 Sum of the major absolute errors
- and if I add -b make it nice one line (may be with better abbreviations)
sum_abs=0 sub_maj_abs=0.11 ...
?
- Another cool feature could be if those could be just output as a json
record, so I could pipe it into some other tool (e.g. our new
https://github.com/pyout/pyout). E.g. with getting a stream of records
{
'filename1': 'blah',
'filename2': 'blah-a',
'Sum of all absolute errors': 0,
...
}
then I could build some nice view alike of "dstat" tool to visualize
resources consumption which just would go through files, and have a
common header, and then all those numbers underneath, e.g.
#compar #result max_abs max_rel...
file1..file2 12 8 3.9e-07 1.08e-04 ...
file3..file4 23 -
which would give me a super nice overview across files ;)
Paolo:
I strongly favor introducing a variant of the -S summary, say -J that outputs a
JSON file.
This makes aggregating multiple test results and integration in CI workflows
easy.
Changing the output of the current -S or adding a -S -b probably breaks
existing use cases.
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