On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:09:14PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2008-12-15 12:58-0000 Andrew Ross wrote: > > > > >I've started on updating the examples to include some addition common > >API function not > >currently demonstrated or tested in the plplot examples. Already this > >has brought one > >bug to light in plerrx / plerry. For now I am concentrating on the C > >examples, so > >obviously the ctest compare test will fail for all languages for now. > >Currently I've > >updated example 9, 15 and 29. Once people are happy with the changes we > >can start > >propagating them to the other language bindings. I've been updating > >api.xml as I go so > >people can see what is still left untested. > > Thanks, Andrew. I have one additional suggestion which is to implement a > non-plotting standard example which simply exercises all the get and set > functions and tests that the results that are obtained for the get are > identical to the results that are set. Such a standard example would fill > in > a huge hole in our current testing since for some languages the interface > to > obtain returned values from the C routines is a little tricky. I am > pretty > sure, for example, that swig handles all that correctly for java and > python, > but it would be nice to actually exercise all those python and java PLplot > get functions with a standard example to make sure. Also, such a standard > example would catch problems like we recently had with plgvpw. > > If you agree such a standard example is a good idea, I can contribute a > substantial fraction of the implementation and propagation work.
Alan, Sounds like an excellent idea. I was thinking of something similar myself. If you are happy to put something together I'll help with the work of propagating it out to the other languages. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
