Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-07 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 01:24:37PM +0200, Stefan van der Walt wrote: > I am interested in this problem, too. A binary comparison would > probably be too sensitive. How about comparing coefficients of some > transform? I.e. the residual on certain Fourier coefficients or parts > of a wavelet tran

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-07 Thread Stefan van der Walt
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:55:13PM -0700, Andrew Straw wrote: > Gael Varoquaux wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:46:24AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote: > >> 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

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Andrew Straw
Gael Varoquaux wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:46:24AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote: >> 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 pl

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
Paul Kienzle wrote: > 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 ah

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Gael Varoquaux
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:46:24AM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote: > 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 th

Re: [matplotlib-devel] backend_driver.py was: Re: examples errors

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Kienzle
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 b