Re: [matplotlib-devel] Comparing pdf output in tests

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> Andrew Straw <str...@as...> writes:
>
>   
>> This test function is a generator that nose will then generate two test
>> cases out of. So, perhaps the image_comparison decorator could be
>> changed to become a generator? I'm not 100% sure it will work, but I
>> don't see why it won't. If it does work, I think this is a good idea.
>>     
>
> It seems to have worked. The build slave with gs shows 65 tests with 2
> known failures, and the one without gs shows 30 known failures:
>
> http://mpl-buildbot.code.astraw.com/builders/Ubuntu%208.04%2C%20Python%202.5%2C%20amd64/builds/167/steps/test/logs/stdio
> http://mpl-buildbot.code.astraw.com/builders/Ubuntu%208.04%2C%20Python%202.5%2C%20amd64%2C%20no%20dvipng%2C%20no%20latex/builds/91/steps/test/logs/stdio
>
>   
Great -- I think this is nice from a test-writer perspective, and I
think it tests just what we want to test -- the appearance of the pdfs.
I think this idea could be easily extended to the ps format and, if
inkscape was installed, we could use the --export-png option to test svg.

Thanks,
Andrew