[developers] compare-in-detail()

[Stephan Oepen]

dear emily,

which of the many DELPH-IN fine systems are you using?

it sounds like maybe [incr tsdb()], but before looking over
recent code changes there, i would like to know for sure ...

best, oe


On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Emily M. Bender <ebender at uw.edu> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have just reproduced this problem and can provide a little more
> detail:
>
> 1) It is not specific to profiles from the matrix regression test
> set.
>
> 2) It is specific to tsdb::compare-in-detail() when the intersection
> includes `mrs'.  (Just `readings' doesn't cause problems, nor
> `derivation', nor `tree'.)
>
> 3) Loading the grammar associated with the profiles doesn't
> make a difference.  I loaded the erg from logon/lingo/erg,
> and then created two profiles from the `mrs' skeleton, and processed
> each.  This should lead to identical profiles.  If the intersection
> is set to include mrs, however, there are diffs for every single
> item (no mrses in common).
>
> 4) I tried comparing the profiles with diff, and the results files
> do differ, but ediff-buffers() in emacs suggests that the differences
> are in the time field.
>
> 5) I used cp to create an absolutely identical copy of one of
> the profiles, and *still* tsdb::compare-in-detail reports diffs
> if the intersection includes mrses.
>
> Since we use this functionality of the fine system in our regression
> testing for the Grammar Matrix, the current state of affairs
> means we can't run the regression tests at all.   For the meantime,
> we can back up to an earlier version of LOGON.  Any clues
> as to what might be culprit and which version we should back
> up to?
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Sanghoun Song <sanghoun at uw.edu> wrote:
>> Deae Folks!
>>
>> I have a question about (tsdb::compare-in-detail ...).
>>
>> I have two profiles (current and gold) that consist of exactly the
>> same files, which are used for the regression test in the Matrix
>> systems. But if I run compare-in-detail() with the two same profiles,
>> tsdb says they are different.
>>
>> For your replication, I attached two sample profiles, and a shell
>> script (foo.sh), adapted from run_regression_test.sh in the Matrix.
>> [$ diff current/ gold/] provides nothing, but comparison between them
>> in tsdb shows 6 differences.
>>
>> FYI, I updated LOGON very recently.
>>
>> Sanghoun
>>
>>
>> --
>> ====================================
>> Sanghoun Song (PhC)
>> Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Washington
>> http://corpus.mireene.com
>> ====================================
>
>
>
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> Emily M. Bender
> Associate Professor
> Department of Linguistics
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