[Shootout-list] Ray tracer

[Isaac Gouy]

>From what you write, Brent has already been incredibly generous towards
your project - I hope you appreciate it.



--- John Skaller <skaller@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 16:25 -0700, Isaac Gouy wrote:
> 
> > If you wish to contribute a Felix program then please follow the
> > instructions in the FAQ (some people even contribute anonymously!)
> > 
> >
>
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/sandbox/faq.php?sort=fullcpu#contribute
> 
> I will use that for 'random' contributions.
> 
> However this is not how I would like to supply Felix tests,
> and I beg for a slightly modified method temporarily.
> 
> The full suite of tests is part of the Felix tarball,
> and needs to be transfered to the Shootout every time
> a new release is installed on the test machine by Brent.
> 
> There are far too many tests and releases to manually
> supply the tests using a form, and they need to be
> synchronised with the Felix compiler as best is possible.
> 
> Currently, Brent is grabbing the tests and manually
> adding them, which is a pain for him. I tried to name
> the files exactly as required by the Shootout so
> it could be automated.
> 
> I'm not sure of the best solution, but the test examples
> should match the installed version: so I would like
> to provide whatever is necessary to allow all the tests
> to be installed automatically when Felix is.
> 
> The form will be OK when the test code stabilises,
> however at the moment any test requiring a new data structure
> means I have to extend the standard library, which is likely
> to be in a state of flux for some time yet.
> 
> Even if I had CVS write access and could install the
> tests into the repository automatically, they still
> wouldn't be synchronised properly with the version
> installed on the test machine.
> 
> 
> -- 
> John Skaller <skaller at users dot sourceforge dot net>
> Download Felix: http://felix.sf.net
> 
> 
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