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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-07-23 00:19:28 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-07-23 00:19:28 +0000
commit1ed6466e0654e035a05c66d74b6d41b5172a08a4 (patch)
tree5d20fc3bc919abe79a977be0e8c74e9044aaae9f
parent1e24665077592eeaa0e4362942a894d36cc70178 (diff)
doc update
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@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
$Id$
Written 2004, Karl Berry. Public domain.
-These are some basic tests for TeX Live being at all functional.
-They are not being run by any cron job, yet.
+The asytestlibs.asy file is for testing various optional libraries that
+can be linked with Asymptote. See
+http://tug.org/texlive/build.html#asymptote.
+
+
+Therest of the files are some basic tests for TeX Live being at all
+functional. They are not being run by any cron job and are no longer up
+to date; it proved too time-consuming to keep everything going, so they
+have been moribund for some years now. If anyone is interested, please
+go to work on it.
The general idea is to have a "knowngood" dvi or pdf file, and compare
it against the result of running with the current code.
@@ -17,8 +25,7 @@ scheme, so simpler tests can be run before more complex ones. Several
tests can have the same priority number.
I don't intend to try to make this any kind of exhaustive testing, we're
-just trying to make sure the most obvious things aren't broken. (Of
-course, the more the merrier.) The only additional tests I plan to add
-myself are:
+just trying to make sure the most obvious things aren't broken. The
+most important additional tests if they ever get resurrected are:
8-bit input (all common languages)
pdfconcat