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

[Josh Richardson]

I'm not sure what to do.  I don't see any "check" or "distcheck" in the
current makefile targets -- I'm using cmake.  Shall I create a new target
"check" in the utils directory for both the cmake and automake systems?

Thanks, --josh

On 8/29/11 2:09 AM, "Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

>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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