Re: gEDA-user: New gerbv revision ready for testing

[Stuart Brorson <sdb@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry --

> Can I humbly request that the examples/regression tests get
> packaged separately from the gerbv source itself?

Thanks for the thought.  We'll take it into consideration.  There are
two sides to this:

*  Some users don't want the bloat of examples & test suites.
*  Having one tarball makes life easy for those users who do, and also for
    the developers who won't have to manage a second tarball.

I'm toying with creating a Python-based test suite for gerbv.  The
test suite would be built on unittest.py, which is a standard
framework for unit testing. If I do this, then the amount of bloat in
the code will increase to the point where I do think it will be a good
idea to have separate tarballs.

Right now the examples are already bundled, so taking them out
requires some developer effort.  I won't promise that they will be
spun out for the (hopefully soon forthcoming) 1.0.3 release, but we
can consider removing them after that.

Cheers,

Stuart



On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Larry Doolittle wrote:

> Stuart -
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:20:25AM -0500, Stuart Brorson wrote:
>> *  If you have any devilish gerbers which test some arcane Gerber
>> corner-case feature, and you can share them with the world, please
>> e-mail them to me and I will include them into the "examples"
>> directory for use in testing as we move forward.
>
> Can I humbly request that the examples/regression tests get
> packaged separately from the gerbv source itself?  They're
> great, but bloat the size of the download tremendously, with
> no real added value for people who already know gerbv works.
>
>     - Larry
>
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