Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Feature Request

[Mosè Giordano]

Hi Ivan,

2016-02-04 7:06 GMT+01:00 Ivan Andrus <address@hidden>:
> I’ve worked a little on error parsing before and I was extremely
> afraid of breaking things.  I would have really liked a large test
> suite to make sure I didn’t introduce some regression.  Something
> produced with different binaries (pdftex, luatex, etex), with all
> relevant options (at least -file-line-error-style), different
> distributions (TeX Live vs MikTeX at least), different packages, etc.
> Unfortunately, I don’t have time to work on error parsing right now,
> and when I do have time I’ll probably have forgotten about it.  :-/
>
> Maybe just soliciting output buffers from people would give a large
> enough corpus.  It wouldn’t even have to be part of the AUCTeX
> repository.  Someone (you can probably talk me into it), could set up
> a repository on github (or elsewhere) and start collecting output and
> slowly work on scripts.

Once we have a better error parsing function (Tassilo worked on it,
but I didn't try his branch lately) I will definitely want to have
regression tests in our "tests/" directory, but you mean to gather
compilation logs just to have something to work on, right?  In this
case I agree it's useless to collect them in our repository.

Bye,
Mosè