[tex-live] General test suite for TeX-Live

[Uwe Ziegenhagen]

I created a Etherpad instance to collect some thoughts: I think that even
visual checks might not be necessary if we calculate statistical summaries
for a given output.

https://piratenpad.de/p/TeXLiveTesting

I commute each day approx. 2 hours, I'll start some design approach
tomorrow-

Uwe

2016-06-19 11:13 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:

> On 2016-06-19 at 09:30:51 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>  > Hi all,
>  >
>  > the idea of automated tested was here more than a year ago and I
>  > explained that I consider it impossible. Nobody knows which set of
>  > packages will be used in a document created by each user. It is
>  > only possible to create subsets of test files.
>
> Dear Zdeněk,
> I fully agree with you. But I don't think that a test is useless
> only because it doesn't catch all possible errors.
>
> What I propose is to
>
>   \let\uwe\proceed
>
> Zdeněk, I'm certainly much more pessimistic than you, but I think that
> we should allow Uwe to prove that our assumptions are wrong.
>
> The only alternative I can imagine is to do nothing.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>
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Dr. Uwe Ziegenhagen
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