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

[Aron Stansvik]

2007/8/9, Emmanuel Fleury <fleury at labri.fr>:
> 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.

Definately, I was on my way out and in a hurry this morning when I ran
the tests. Had there been a SVN command line like that to cut'n'paste
I would probably have thrown in the DocBook tests too ;)

> > 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!

Me too.

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

Might do that when I get home ~20:00 GMT+1.

Aron