POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unofficial.patches : Regression tests for POV development : Re: Regression tests for POV development Server Time
2 Sep 2024 18:15:43 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Regression tests for POV development  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 12 Jan 2000 13:05:55
Message: <387cc283@news.povray.org>
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:01:50 +0100, Axel Hecht wrote:
>Hy,
>just a note on the measurement, how about md5 checksums?
>They can be distributed easily, so that several people can do the check.
>At times I looked into configure;make;... I thought about adding an
>essential part of allscene.sh to the test target, then make -j could
>parallize such tests.

checksums would be fine if the only intent was to insure that the image
was exactly identical, but I'm not sure that there aren't some changes
that would result in slightly different but acceptable and/or desirable
results.

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