On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > On 2015-10-26, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > >> OK. I just want to make sure we define "there are no regressions". These >> tests passed before edd37de8. So it is quite possible that documents >> that users have that compile with LyX 2.1.x suddenly fail to compile >> with LyX 2.2.0 because of edd37de8. In this sense, there is a >> regression. > >> So there is a trade-off: the bad side is that there is the possibility >> that user's documents suddenly fail to compile. The good side is that we >> now encourage the use of polyglossia by default which apparently has >> advantages over babel. Jürgen knowingly made this decision and he knows >> more than I do to be able to judge this tradeoff so I hesitantly accept >> it. > > Polyglossia has been the better (and sometimes only) choice for use with > Xe/LuaTeX Unicode fonts for a long time, but Babel is catching up in the > last years. > > It may be that we need a new keyword for lib/languages, to tag > languages where Babel is superior to Polyglossia also with non-TeX fonts. > > Then, the "automatic" setting (which is also the default "default") could > take into account that some languages should use Babel also with non-TeX > fonts even if Polyglossia is available for them. >
> Could this prevent some of the regressions? (We need to look carefully, not > only if the relevant documents compile without error, but also if the > exported document is OK.) > By exported document do you mean .tex or .pdf? If it is .tex, would it be a good idea to check whether the latest export is identical to a reference .tex generated when creating the test; if not, display a diff. Simply relying on the exit code seems like an easy way to miss non-error generating regressions... Liviu > Günter > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
