[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New test framework for liblouisutdml Java bindings
- From: "Michael Whapples" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "mwhapples@xxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:42:04 +0100
On 15/07/2014 13:24, Christian Egli wrote:
Hi
On 07/15/2014 12:09 PM, Michael Whapples (Redacted sender
mwhapples@xxxxxxx for DMARC) wrote:
and also that file2brl is essentially a unix only tool (it cannot be
built with defacto compilers on Windows, IE. MSVC), thus the old test
framework does not meet with the goal of LibLouisUTDML being
cross-platform.
You've said this in the past and it is still false. The existing test
framework is deliberately simple as to not to depend on too many
things. It is just as cross-platform as liblouisutdml itself.
I am sorry, you have that wrong. I specified MSVC specifically as that
is the compiler most windows users can get running (mingw32 is too
complicated and picky to normally rely on getting working and cygwin
relies on the cygwin runtime). File2brl uses gnulib, and gnulib only has
build stuff for autotools and no clear indication how to even start
going about using it for other build systems. Thus unless you can
provide MSVC instructions for building file2brl I deem it not possible
to build on Windows with defacto compilers.
* The translateFile tests are defined in the file
testdata/translateFileTests.xml. The root element of this file is tests
and it can contain translateFileTest elements....
The whole thing sounds very complicated. If there is one thing that I
learned over the years then its the saying that simplicity always
trumps complexity.
May be the explanation is complicated, its hardly complicated in
practice. It is one just needs to state in the explanation things like
where relative paths will be resolved relative to, and how best to
describe an XML document structure? Similar stuff needs explaining
whatever notation/syntax is used.
I wrote a very simple, proof-of-concept test harness for liblouis a
while ago, using the Java bindings and Clojure. Maybe some ideas could
be stolen from there: https://github.com/egli/louis-clj
I have taken a look at that. Not really sure what it gives over the
approach I have taken. You would still need to explain where relative
file paths are resolved relative to, the structure of the file, etc.
Please give more detail how it simplifies things?
Hope that helps
Christian
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