> I do like Michael's idea, used for selected tests (saybe maybe 50 to
> 80% of the tests). Agreed with Werner that there is the issue we
> don't have such a backend at the moment, although there is a
> question as to whether a normalizing postprocess on the SVG output
> might be enough, assuming there is reasonable certainty that SVG and
> PDF would be identically reliable for regression testing purposes
> (again, just for the selected tests)
Thanks for mentioning SVG – right now, the SVG backend is more or less
unmaintained and will eventually be removed as soon as we switch to
Cairo (in the hopefully not too distant future), which will then take
care of creating PDF, SVG, etc.
This means that it would be sufficient to make the Cairo backend also
create logging output. In case I'm not missing something this
shouldn't be too hard to add.
Werner
