Am 27.10.2015 um 00:56 schrieb Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de>: > Am 26.10.2015 um 16:51 schrieb Stephan Witt: > >> You missed the "Change to the build-directory." part of Kornels advice. >> >> I think "D:\LyXGit\Master\lib\examples" isn't your build directory or at >> least it shouldn't be so. > > Thanks for this pointer. This works somehow but I still don't see if a test > was passed or not. I only get this: > > D:\LyXGit\Master\compile-result>ctest -N > Test project D:/LyXGit/Master/compile-result > Test #1: frontends/test_biblio > Test #2: support/convert > Test #3: support/filetools > Test #4: support/lstrings > Test #5: support/trivstring > Test #6: tex2lyx/roundtrip/test.ltx > Test #7: tex2lyx/cmplyx/test.ltx > Test #8: tex2lyx/roundtrip/algo2e.tex > ... > Test #199: lyx2lyx/parser_tools > Total Tests: 199 > > Where is the result?
"ctest -N" doesn't run any test. It shows the available tests. > > Now I want to test modernCV.lyx as proposed by Scott then I get > > D:\LyXGit\Master\compile-result>ctest -R "modernCV" > Test project D:/LyXGit/Master/compile-result > No tests were found!!! This doesn't work for me too. The argument to "-R" is a regular expression to select the test subset. Either they have different names or the expression to choose them isn't obvious. > I find modernCV.lyx in a subfolder and switching to t and repeat doesn't help: > > D:\LyXGit\Master\compile-result\LYX_INSTALLED\Resources\examples>ctest -R > "modernCV" > Test project D:/LyXGit/Master/compile-result/LYX_INSTALLED/Resources/examples > No tests were found!!! > > Kornel and Georg, could you please help me here? > >>> So yes, you might think I am retarded but I cannot get tests to work and >>> nobody tells me how to do them. >> >> AFAICS, you're asking for help regarding ctest now for the first time giving >> a concrete example. > > Hmm, Vincent said that People explained me already how it works. His > reference did not explain much so I felt that I am too stupid to get it. > >>> If things are that easy why can't they be documented? That is why we have >>> the Development.lyx file, no? There ctest is not mentioned. >> >> I have to admit it took me some minutes too to realize how it works. >> Therefore your complaint is valid. But you're using a strange tone, IMHO. >> Nobody is interested in making you angry or frustrated. >> And there is a fundamental problem with documentation of these things >> on windows. Georg, who did most of the work, doesn't have the tools >> and the desire to work on Windows. > > The point is that nothing is documented but people tell me what I make wrong. > I feel like sitting behind a high wall of tests hindering me providing new > features, even simple ones like layout improvements. And that is frustrating! > I mean I can now not even do a simple fileformat change to change a module > because I cannot run required tests. I am an experienced LyXer but it was > never so complicated to contribute to LyX. The situation with a software project like LyX is complicated. The code base is huge and you never can be sure you're making some damage while improving some piece of code with best intentions. The only way to get good results and avoid frustration in the long run is the setup and exercise of as many tests as possible. Ideally they are run by some daemon working in the background on every change of the code base. Not running tests leads to other frustration like putting in broken features. One cannot be sure - experienced or not is not the question. > This is a bad development in my opinion because we need devels on Windows. We have not that many developers on Windows because of the complexity of the LyX project as is. The request to run tests is not the problem, IMHO. Stephan
