Re: [Mupad-combinat-users] question about testing/documentation

[Nicolas M. T. <Nic...@u-...>]

	Hi Mike,

> I can find the instructions on how to compile the documentation, but
> I am trying to find instructions on how to run the test files.
> Is this on the wiki too?

Indeed; see section Tests on
http://mupad-combinat.sf.net/Wiki/ProgrammingTipsAndTricks

Well, I hope the wiki will be working today ...

Speaking of this: in case you would volunteer to migrate our broken
wiki to something more stable (typically the sourceforge-provided wiki
engine), here are some pointers:

 - I have enabled the sourceforge wiki engine:
   http://mupad-combinat.wiki.sourceforge.net/ Currently, it is
   visible from anyone (but there are no links to it from our web
   page), and anyone of the mupad-combinat developers can edit it.

 - The database for our wiki appears to be corrupted; I have tried to
   extract its raw data. You will find it in MuPAD-Combinat/Wiki-Text
   after a svn update.

 - You probably don't need that, but just in case:
   To login on sourceforge shell servers:
   ssh shell.sf.net
   The database is in:
     /tmp/persistent/mupad-combinat/phpwiki-database/wiki_pagedb.gdbm
   The web server is in:
     /home/groups/m/mu/mupad-combinat/htdocs

 - What remains to do:
   - Check the markup syntax difference between the old wiki and the
     new one
   - Take the files of the old wiki in Wiki-Text (I can update those
     in case something changes in the old wiki in the mean time).
     Double check that no data is missing
     Update the markup
     Import them into the new wiki

> Also after I recompiled my ascii documentation it seems that there
> are new characters that even "less" doesn't recognize.  What kind of
> reader is MuPAD supposed to be using if it generates these weird
> characters?

In principle it should work with less; but there may be a bug. Now,
don't bother too much about it: Christopher has recently written an
XSL style file to directly produce the ascii documentation from the
mupdoc file (instead of going through mupad graphical interface ->
html -> ascii + hacks).  So the problem is likely to disappear once I
take the time to integrate this into our build system.

Cheers,
					Nicolas
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