[vtk-developers] Possible legacy directory in python testing.

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

I agree with Bill, and would like to pass this in for all tests. It
also isn't clear to me why we don't just use a larger amount of this
logic in the wrapped C++ module, that way we would only need to
maintain one location where the pipeline logic is setup, along with
the logic for what to do if the file is not present, where to write
baselines etc.

Marcus

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> According to Wrapping.Python/vtk/test/Testing.py
> the path to the testing directory is determined by:
>
>    -T /path/to/valid/temporary_dir/
>    --temp-dir /path/to/valid/temporary_dir/
>
>          This is a path to the directory where the image differences
>          are written.  If this option is not set via the command line
>          the environment variable VTK_TEMP_DIR is used.  If the
>          environment variable is not set the value defaults to
>          '../../../Testing/Temporary'.
>
> For VTK6, the default should be
> ../../../../Testing/Temporary
>
> I just pushed a patch to gerrit to resolve the problem.
>
> However, in the future I think we should explicitly specify -T in the
> add_test commands for python tests. We do that for tcl and cxx tests.
> It's a bit too tricky to rely on defaults in my opinion.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andrew Maclean
> <andrew.amaclean at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Marcus,
>> I have been monitoring TestParametricFunctions and from the dashboard it
>> seems that it fails because it is trying to write the test files
>> to /Common/Testing/Temporary/ which does not exist. On my linux machine, if
>> I create this directory then the test runs. I can confirm this on on my
>> machine running Ubuntu 64-bit linux.
>> I am seeing the same thing on londinium.kitware for both clang and gcc.
>> It is passing on the Macs andhythloth.kitware.
>> The test also runs on my windows 64-bit machine and passed.
>>
>> I am pretty ignorant here as to whether this directory is created on the fly
>> and fails because Testing does not exist in Common or whether it is
>> something else. It is odd that both Mac and my windows machine run the test
>> Ok.
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
>>
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