Re: [Plplot-devel] Testing of "standard" Ada examples

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On 2008-12-23 01:53-0700 Jerry wrote:

> I would like to have the "standard" Ada examples xthicka01.adb
> through xthicka31.adb (31 is TBD) subjected to the same Postscript
> and stdout tests as the "traditional" Ada examples x01a.adb through
> x31.adb to assure that they create identical results.
>
> I'm sure this would cause some of you headaches since I think that
> Ada is the only language binding with multiple user-level bindings
> which leads to the two flavors of examples.
>
> So far I have been manually checking them as I converted them from C
> and afterwards as changes were made but this seems like the kind of
> thing that the automated testing system might be made to handle.

Your wish is my command...  :-)

As of revision 9219 here is the Ada status you obtain from the 'ctest' command
and looking at the results of that command in Testing/Temporary/LastTest.log

ada
   Missing examples            :  31
   Differing postscript output :  15 29
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            :  23
adathick
   Missing examples            :  31
   Differing postscript output :  15 29
   Missing stdout              :
   Differing stdout            :  23

Alan
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