gEDA-dev: o_invalidate_rect() and extra margin for the line width

[Dan McMahill]

Peter Clifton wrote:

> We should probably do 1.4.1 soon actually. I hope to get the gnetlist
> test suite in before then, and Ales wanted intltool disabling - which I
> agree is probably a good idea.

Is this a new test suite or additions to what is there?

I've been wanting to rework it a bit.  Portions require gnetlist to be 
installed first which is a bit backwards.  Also I think there are some 
remaining issues around building outside the source tree.  It should all 
be fixable though.  I do think it would be good to move all the gnetlist 
tests into the same framework though.  That makes maintaining it much 
easier.  We probably should also make it so it runs all of the tests and 
then reports how many passed and how many failed.  Currently the tests 
stop on the first failure which is a bit annoying.

The framework in the spice-sdb area is based on what I did for latex-mk 
(yet another oss project of mine) and in latex-mk it worked fairly well. 
  We used pretty much the same approach in gerbv and I think it is 
working there.  We can probably add any needed extensions to make it 
work for all of the gnetlist tests.  Basically the idea is you have a 
text file that defines each test.  The test is given a name, some data 
like input files, extra command line arguments, and an expected exit 
code.  Then there is a script which goes over each test and runs it. 
The script has hooks in there for easily regenerating "golden" files.

-Dan