[xmlroff] What is the useful default 'testing' setup? [Was: Nearly ready for xmlroff 0.5.2]

[Emmanuel Fleury]

Tony Graham wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 09 2007 08:12:31 +0100, elvstone at gmail.com wrote:
>> 2007/8/8, Tony Graham <Tony.Graham at menteithconsulting.com>:
> ...
>>> I would appreciate it if someone would verify that the current code
>>> works for them.
>> The current code works for me on an up-to-date Kubuntu Feisty system.
>> These are my test results (no DocBook tests):
>> http://franzkafe.se/xmlroff-testing/
> 
> What is the useful default setup for the 'testing' module?
> 
> I was already thinking yesterday about making a separate
> 'testsuites.xml' file and separate test results file for the DocBook
> tests, and today it seems that when people run the tests to check
> xmlroff (and thank you all who have done that), they run just the
> xmlroff test suite and not the DocBook testdocs.

Hmmm, just looking at what I did, I can say that I just went for the
minimal understanding of the test scheme. You might need to specify that
getting the testdocs/ dir is done through:

svn co https://docbook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/docbook/trunk/testdocs

It might help people to get it easily.

> Using the '--disable-reference' option will disable the comparison to a
> reference and hence disable the listing of differences, but would it be
> more useful if, for example, it was possible to 'preload' the reference
> version with the sample outputs provided in the testsuite?

I think this would be great!

I'm running the whole test-set with the docbook tests.

Regards
-- 
Emmanuel Fleury

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