Christian. One other factor in this is that we really do want to test the library through the Java bindings. File2brl has been known to give us false passes, making us think something was working when it really was not. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:liblouis-liblouisxml-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Christian Egli Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8:24 AM To: liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: New test framework for liblouisutdml Java bindings 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. > * 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. 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 Hope that helps Christian -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com For a description of the software, to download it and links to project pages go to http://www.abilitiessoft.com