Re: Host corollary to auval?
Re: Host corollary to auval?
- Subject: Re: Host corollary to auval?
- From: Jim Wintermyre <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:41:06 -0800
At 5:05 PM -0800 3/2/10, William Stewart wrote:
AULab was provided as a reference host - the idea here was that if
your AU works correctly in this host, any other hosts that show a
discrepancy are technically out of spec and we have a starting point
for a conversation
If we have don't provide features in AULab that you feel are needed,
we can consider them.
What I think would be a lot more useful is an AU plugin that you can
run in various hosts, and it prints out error messages when the host
does something out of spec. For example, the thing that came up
recently about a host that was calling Render with more samples than
maxFramesPerSlice. That kind of thing would be super easy to catch
with something like this, and again, having it be more of an
"official" test tool would provide more motivation to the hosts to
fix any errors. I realize that testing host behavior is inherently
not as straightforward as testing au behavior like auval, but I still
think it would be useful.
That same example is not something you're going to catch by running
AULab and then running the host in question.
Speaking of AULab, it's great to have it as a reference test host,
but if there is a descrepancy basically have to reverse engineer what
AULab is doing, and then what the other host you're comparing against
is doing. If you really want AULab to be a reference host, I think
releasing the source code would go a long ways towards that goal.
(...unless I'm missing something obvious and the source is available
somehwere...)
Thanks,
Jim
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