[Bioperl-l] need help making biographics tests

[Lincoln Stein]

That might work.  I'll try it.

Lincoln

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 02:51 am, Matthew Pocock wrote:
> Lincoln Stein wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > There is an annoying problem with the bio::graphics module.  Depending
> > on the combination of various versions of libgd, libfreetype and
> > libpng that happen to be installed on the target system, bio::graphics
> > will generate visually identically but binary different picture files.
> > As a result, the first three regression tests fail when run on a
> > different machine from which they were generated.
>
> Would it work if you loaded the images back into memory and compared
> each pixle of the bitmap (within some threshold), or would compression
> artifacts make this impossible?
>
> > Thanks much!
> >
> > Lincoln