[Bioperl-l] tests

[Heikki Lehvaslaiho]

I'd prefer option 2: disabling the png tests and replacing them later
with SVG tests.

Thanks,
	-Heikki

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 21:25, Lincoln Stein wrote:
> Hi Heikki,
> 
> Option 1:
> 
> Run BioGraphics.t with the --write switch:
> 
> 	perl t/BioGraphics.t --write
> 
> This will create a set of pngs in t/data/biographics named 
> t1.png, t2.png and t3.png.  Look at them visually and 
> confirm that they are similar to the variants located in 
> t/data/biographics/version*.  If so, move the new versions 
> into the appropriate version directory.
> 
> Option 2:
> 
> I will disable the PNG tests completely.  Every different 
> combination of libpng and libgd generates files that are 
> visually identical but incompatible at the binary level.  
> These tests aren't scaling.
> 
> The SVG version of Bio::Graphics is almost finished, and 
> when done I will replace the PNG tests with SVG tests.  
> Since SVG is a text-only XML format, it won't suffer these 
> problems.
> 
> Lincoln
> 
> On Saturday 25 October 2003 11:06 am, Heikki Lehvaslaiho 
> wrote:
> > I went to a really boring meeting and there was no
> > network connection, so I ended up fixing bioperl tests to
> > better skip individual tests when network is down.
> >
> > The only remaining test files with failures (under linux
> > and perl 5.8.1) are BioGraphics.t and Registry.t. Brian
> > is working on the latter and Lincoln has previously
> > hinted that there might be a better way of testing png
> > file generation. Would be nice to see it in place.
> >
> > 	-Heikki
> >
> >
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