[poppler] Other stuff about pdftohtml (was Re: Beta 3 release status)

Albert Astals Cid aacid at kde.org
Mon Aug 29 02:09:47 PDT 2011


A Diumenge, 28 d'agost de 2011, Josh Richardson vàreu escriure:
> I obviously can't review my own code, but I'd be happy to help review
> other people's patches to pdftohtml as they come up -- contact me offline
> to work out logistics if I can help.
> 
> Also, Chegg is going to be building a regression suite for pdftohtml.
> 
> 1.  If my management agrees, would you be interested in having us
> contribute it?

Maybe, what is it going to do? Test visually the rendered html?  Do a simple 
diff between expected result and real result?

> 2.  Do you have any pointers or requirements for an integrated test
> framework?  I'm thinking to hook it up to "make test" in utils
> directory....

make check
is better, this way it will be checked when i run make distcheck to create the 
tarball.

Albert

> 
> Thanks, --josh
> 
> On 8/28/11 6:02 PM, "Josh Richardson" <jric at chegg.com> wrote:
> >Albert, you are correct -- it doesn't matter to me when it goes in.  I
> >know others are waiting for it, but I imagine they can build from git and
> >won't have to wait 3 months.  Thanks for asking!
> >
> >--josh
> >
> >On 8/28/11 2:02 PM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >>Hi all, tomorrow is the supposed day for 0.18 beta 3.
> >>
> >>Of the 6 items listed in the todo:
> >>
> >>2 have been commited:
> >> * [Bug 38586] support text rotation
> >> * pdftocairo
> >>
> >>1 is not a feature (so can be introduced later):
> >> * BOM and endianness of poppler::ustring class
> >>
> >>1 is in regtest process (looking good)
> >>
> >> * Creating PDF with poppler ?
> >>
> >>1 is yet to be finished:
> >> * Form-Reset and Print [patches]
> >>
> >>1 is yet to be code reviewed:
> >> * [Bug 39385] pdftohtml: add image and font extraction
> >>
> >>Since we are already ultra late with the 0.18 release i am proposing to
> >>postpone the yet to be finished and the yet be code reviewed to poppler
> >>0.20
> >>(that is supposed to be released "only" 3 months after 0.18 is
> >>released).
> >>
> >>Obviously i do not care about the patch yet to be finished to be delayed
> >>(or
> >>otherwise i would not be suggesting this) so Josh, what do you say about
> >>delaying a bit the release of your patch?
> >>
> >>I understand that you would not care much either since it seems you are
> >>already using it internally, right?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>  Albert
> >
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