[Libreoffice-commits] core.git: Revert "Revert "Make VCartesianAxis::get2DAxisMainLine() truly const method.""

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 08:06:38 PDT 2014


On 10/14/2014 04:08 PM, Markus Mohrhard wrote:
> So it is a bit complicated. In contrast to draw/impress the xshape test in
> chart2 are not perfectly stable across machines. There are many factors
> that may result in differences between different computers.
>
> The reference machine for these tests was the @50 tinderbox which always
> produced the same results as my local Linux machine (which of course was
> helpful for me). Personally I regard all test failures of these tests a bit
> sceptical. I always check if there was a chart2 change that explains the
> test failure and if so regenerate the reference files (of course checking
> it is not a regression is still necessary). If there is none it is for sure
> a regression and the idea was that it is easier to find some of the
> problems introduced by commits to drawinglayer already through the
> automated tests.
>
> So in a perfect world these tests would be stable and everyone could run
> them, in reality it is best to run the only on a few machines that are
> known to work and maintained by people who can judge if a test failure is a
> regression or not.

now updated 
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=f57a697fac4e2c885bfaf5add1dfe05ede552cd5> 
"Add clarification of --enable-chart-tests"

Stephan


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