Re: [ft-devel] Unit test environment for FreeType

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Sean McBride <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:43:35 -0800, Brian Stell said:
>
>>Freetype is a critical part of the Linux world. It's become fairly common
>>for bodies of code to have a test suite. (I'm not proposing full testing
>>right right now ;-)
>>
>>I think the most critical issue is which testing environment would be best
>>for FT.
>>CUnit, CppUnit, googletest, ...
>>
>>Thoughts?
>
> Yes, this is a serious shortcoming of FreeType.  It's not just unit testing 
> that's lacking, but nightly automated builds on a variety of platforms.  
> Something that produces results like this:
>
> <http://open.cdash.org/index.php?project=CMake>

Glyph rendering quality is in the eye of the beholder. What somebody
says is blurry is smooth in the eyes of the other. How do you suggest
that we automate that?