Andrew Straw wrote: > Jouni K. Seppänen wrote: > >> Jouni K. Seppänen <j...@iki.fi> writes: >> >> When we add new formats (comparing postscript files could easily be done >> using the same ghostscript command as used for pdf files, and some svg >> renderer could also be added) >> > > "inkscape input.svg --export-png=output.png" works very well as an svg > renderer. > I'd also like to run SVG through xmllint against the SVG schema as another sanity check. I may get to this if I can find the time. > >> and new tests, we'll have to think about >> if we want to run all tests on all backends, since the amount of data in >> the repository will start growing pretty fast. >> >> > As far as the test data -- I agree this is an issue. One point in favor > of the status quo is that it's really nice to have the test data > included with the source code so there are no configuration hassles. I'm > not sure how well the buildbot infrastructure would cope with anything > else. For example, to my knowledge, there is no Buildbot precedent to > automatically pull from two branches to execute a single test run. But > in general I think this does bear thinking about. > An easy improvement may be having an extra kwarg on the image_comparison decorator to select a subset of backends. For example, many of the ones in test_simplification.py only apply to the Agg backend.
While I'm sharing my wish list out loud, I think it would also be highly cool to get the native Mac OS backend in the buildbot tests, as that's one I can't test easily myself. Cheers, Mike -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
