From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/51883 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: context mkiv bug + related feature request + related question Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4A62F518.9050201@wxs.nl> References: <68bfdc900906212036w1ac276c8gb3d5e4274d5358b@mail.gmail.com> <68bfdc900907180451o654e172bh40d44bf6357fce69@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1247999325 12447 80.91.229.12 (19 Jul 2009 10:28:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:28:45 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 19 12:28:38 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MSTdF-0008UM-Sh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:28:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCA701FB74; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:28:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10550-05-3; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD2701FB1F; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 501601FB1F for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09951-08-2 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA401FAD7 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n6JARbBZ007582 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:37 +0200 Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 28030-1840426 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:27:37 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) In-Reply-To: X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=83.247.100.17; country=NL; region=15; city=Almelo; latitude=52.3500; longitude=6.6667; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.3500,6.6667&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 262946609 - 45d3478ee848 - 20090719 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:51883 Archived-At: Mohamed Bana wrote: > i'd like to ask what sort of regression testing you guys are doing. it's > very clear that things are constantly breaking, and even trivial ones but > aren't being spotted. we have a couple of test docs but no regression suits .. there have been several attempts to set this up but no one is following up on that consistently and it's not something that taco and i are going to maintain (too much to do already) anyhow, most reports about bugs refer to mkiv and esp structure related things; keep in mind that most counter, number conversion, multipass info, etc has been completely rewritten from scratch so there are definitely bugs esp in gray areas and since some of the control model has changed, we even will have differnces in configuration between mkii and mkiv (topic for the context meeting) this will sort itself out as more is tested Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! 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