I forgot to mention: 7.99 generates files that are already different to
7.0.3 (both from yesterday)
On 19/5/23 11:27, Salvador E. Tropea wrote:
Hi All!
One of the things KiBot does is enable repeatable plots, you put the
options in a YAML file and you'll always get plots using these
parameters, regardless of any change in the plot dialog.
To test it my regression tests usually plot PCBs and compare them with
some reference image that was visually validated.
From time to time KiCad changes the plot output. This is quite
annoying, and even dangerous because this includes the gerbers. Note
that the same is for the schematic.
This happens very often and I always wondered if the development team
is aware of this.
Since 7.0.0 release I already changed 3 times the references for KiCad
7, and now I'm facing another change introduced by
d5bd1f5aea042a238345171b99a195da9e0eab9e (which is radical for some
cases, i.e. left justified large text)
Most of the commits that introduced changes claims to be to make
things more compatible with KiCad 6, which is good.
But, if I try to use 6.0.11 images as reference I still have
differences with KiCad 7.0.3, even with
d5bd1f5aea042a238345171b99a195da9e0eab9e applied, so it looks like
more of these changes will come.
So here I want to propose something: Can KiCad regression tests do the
same that KiBot does? (make sure the plot outputs doesn't change much)
KiBot tollerates deviations in the color and also some pixels
changing. But here we are talking about hundreads or thounsands of
pixels changing for a 3000x2000 image.
I know this will be annoying because small changes in code will report
errors, but then the team will have to make a decision: Is this change
really needed or is just an unintended side effect?
Please consider it,
Salvador
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