[xmlroff] What is the useful default 'testing' setup?

[Tony Graham]

On Thu, Aug 09 2007 15:08:07 +0100, fleury at labri.fr wrote:
> Tony Graham wrote:
...
>> 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.

It's in the README (which recently grew a Table of Contents because it
was getting so big).

The instructions are also at http://xmlroff.org/wiki/DocBookTestdocs

>> 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!

Noted as ticket #87.

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

Which takes a lot longer.  (I know this very well since I'm on the road
and using a laptop with a 800MHz Crusoe processor.)

I am finding that the DocBook 'vi' test hangs 'gs' when rasterising the
output.  Please let me know if you see anything similar.

Regards,


Tony.