On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:03 AM, bulia byak<buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Dan Kegel<dank@...2221...> wrote:
Why are there so many failures there? It looks like nobody is paying attention to the results. Shouldn't those regressions stop development until they're fixed?
Most of them are in SVG test suite, being the SVG features which we officially don't support. While this is regrettable, and is being slowly improved, it's not something that would affect regular users of Inkscape - since Inkscape has no UI for creating these SVG features, its inability to render them matters little.
The usual way to handle this is for the test harness to have a way of marking those tests as 'expected to fail', and not flag them as failures (unless they start passing unexpectedly). Then developers can tell very quickly if there's a problem -- only real regressions will show as errors. - Dan