On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 10:37:01AM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote:
> On 2015-02-13 14:45-0000 Andrew Ross wrote:
> 
> >
> >In my latest commit I've updated the test suite so that there is now a
> >plrender front-end for plplot-test.sh. This will run all the C examples
> >with the plmeta driver, then run plrender to re-render the files using
> >the specified driver. This test is also incorporated in with the
> >test_diff_psc target to compare with the straight C psc output.
> >
> >Of course, by default plmeta is disabled so this commit should change
> >nothing for most users.
> >
> >Before Phil and Jim's changes examples 19 and 27 segfault with plrender.
> >The others render, but all show lots of differences. Will be
> >interesting to see what happens with the new patches!
> 
> Thanks for this.  Once the new plmeta and plrender functionality is
> finished by Jim, some adjustments will obviously have to be made to
> use the new plmeta output file option, but I am very much looking
> forward to using what you have just implemented (with that small
> modification) as a powerful test of all of the new plbuf, plmeta, and
> plrender capabilities.

Hopefully this thorough testing will highlight any new issues more 
promptly and prevent a future repeat of the current bit-rot in the 
plmeta code.

Andrew

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