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

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

Maybe but my Lua Skills are non-existing, my Python skills improving on a
daily basis.

Let's see if it works at all, then we can find a way.

Uwe



2016-06-19 21:25 GMT+02:00 Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>:

> 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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> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dr. Uwe Ziegenhagen
> > <http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
>



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Dr. Uwe Ziegenhagen
<http://www.uweziegenhagen.de>
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