Re: [Axiom-developer] merge branches/daly to trunk

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Waldek Hebisch wrote:

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| I must admit that I consider technique applied in current silver as
| step backwards:  AFAICS results of running input files are still
| compared using text comparison, but since expected result is
| embedded in .input files we have extra maintenance burden when
| output changes (I use separate tree for comparison).

If I were to make sure that I did not break anything already working in Tim's
tree, I have to test his regress script first -- no matter how much I don't
appreciate the methodology of the script.  At the moment, it has all sort  of
things that depend on user daly so I cannot even try. 

| Concerning regress script: using md5sums is quite crude, there is
| a lot of differences which give functionally identical result.

yes, we agree.

-- Gaby