stop duplicating example-contents data

There were some valid reasons for not using example-contents as a dependency for the checkbox tests that require data similar to the ones in question.

The biggest one being, IMHO, the need to not depend on example data that could arbitrarily change, or disappear altogether in the future. Another being the need for file names that make sense from a testing perspective: SongTitle-ArtistName.oga is not a useful description for test output while OggVorbisAudio.oga is.

Also, the structure of the ./data dir in Checkbox was changed to accommodate sorting the various sample file types by category (Audio, Video, Documents, Web) so we could have tests simply parse a directory and tests against the types it finds in there. This allows us to run smaller test sets targeted against specific types or applications (e.g. we can run a batch test against common video types, or common Document types).

One thing I noticed, however, is that the Alpha 2 isos have an version of Checkbox that is not current with trunk. The current trunk has full directory structure and descriptive file types (including types that aren't part of example-content) and was created to satisfy the requirements of the consumer test list project for certification. I'm assuming the current tree has the latest checkbox trunk and will appear in Alpha 3 and beyond.

So for now, the decision made is to move all the data and associated tests from Checkbox to Checkbox-compatibility and that should be accomplished prior to the Beta spin.Bug Description

Hello Jeff,

Jeff Lane [2010-08-03 21:05 -0000]:
> Another being the need for file names that make sense from a testing
> perspective: SongTitle-ArtistName.oga is not a useful description for
> test output while OggVorbisAudio.oga is.
>
> Also, the structure of the ./data dir in Checkbox was changed to
> accommodate sorting the various sample file types by category (Audio,
> Video, Documents, Web)

Could the files which are in example-contents merely be symlinked
instead of being full copies? Then you can retain the naming schema
and the ./data structure.

Thanks,

Martin
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Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
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After discussion with Martin and the original plan to just move everything, I settled on a compromise.

1: I moved most of the extraneous files to -compat for now.
2: Created a smaller subset of doc/file type tests by using symlinks to some of the items in example-content

This got Checkbox itself back down to a little less than 800K

This, I feel, is a good compromise that gives us at least some basic file type testing in the general public AND allows us to keep the Consumer Tests intact by moving them to -compat.

Thanks Jeff, appreciated!

The files themselves were refactored to concentrate on what was being tested precisely. In the end, the same feature set was preserved and the overall deb size is now 1.2M.