[poppler] delay || !regtest

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Wednesday, May 18, 2011, Reece Dunn va escriure:
> On 18 May 2011 19:15, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> > A Thursday, May 12, 2011, Pino Toscano va escriure:
> >> Alle lunedì 9 maggio 2011, Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> >> > Unfortunately my main laptop is dead
> >> 
> >> Ouch :/
> >> 
> >> > and i'm now using a much slower
> >> > one, this means i can not run the regtests in a reasonable amount of
> >> > time (last attempt took 24hours and i was only throught half the
> >> > 
> >> > regtest) so we can do two things:
> >> >  * Delay the release a few (2 or 3) weeks until i get the computer
> >> > 
> >> > back and can run proper regression testing
> >> > 
> >> >  * Commit the patches hoping they will work
> >> 
> >> I'd prefer having a delayed release but without regressions, otherwise
> >> we'll spend more time later in handling eventual regressions.
> > 
> > I'm delaying the release until my main PC gets repaired (shop dude said 2
> > weeks but it's been 2 weeks already and he says 2 weeks again, if i don't
> > get one in 2 weeks, i'll probably just buy a new one) and have time to
> > run regtests, etc.
> > 
> > Sorry about that.
> 
> Are the reftests easy to run from another computer?

Not really possible since:
 * The files of the regtest wight 3GB
 * You usually need to do manual inspection when there is changes since it is 
not programatically possible to decide if a change is an improvement or not.

Thanks for the offer though.

Albert

> 
> If you send me the commands to run, e.g.:
> 
>    $ git clone poppler.git
>    $ cd poppler
>    $ ./autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/opt/poppler && make && make
> install $ cd ..
>    $ git clone poppler-reftests.git
>    $ cd poppler-reftests
>    $ ./run.sh /opt/poppler
> 
> I could run the reftests on my machine then send you the log file if
> that qould help.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Reece
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