[tex-live] General test suite for TeX-Live

[Zdenek Wagner]

Wouldn't it be better to use lua instead of python? Python is
automatically installed on Linux but not on Windows, on the other hand
lua is a part of TeX Live, hence it always exists.
Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz


2016-06-19 21:00 GMT+02:00 Uwe Ziegenhagen <ziegenhagen at gmail.com>:
> I created a Etherpad instance to collect some thoughts: I think that even
> visual checks might not be necessary if we calculate statistical summaries
> for a given output.
>
> https://piratenpad.de/p/TeXLiveTesting
>
> I commute each day approx. 2 hours, I'll start some design approach
> tomorrow-
>
> Uwe
>
> 2016-06-19 11:13 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
>>
>> On 2016-06-19 at 09:30:51 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>>
>>  > Hi all,
>>  >
>>  > the idea of automated tested was here more than a year ago and I
>>  > explained that I consider it impossible. Nobody knows which set of
>>  > packages will be used in a document created by each user. It is
>>  > only possible to create subsets of test files.
>>
>> Dear Zdeněk,
>> I fully agree with you. But I don't think that a test is useless
>> only because it doesn't catch all possible errors.
>>
>> What I propose is to
>>
>>   \let\uwe\proceed
>>
>> Zdeněk, I'm certainly much more pessimistic than you, but I think that
>> we should allow Uwe to prove that our assumptions are wrong.
>>
>> The only alternative I can imagine is to do nothing.
>>
>> Regards,
>>   Reinhard
>>
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