taplint update

[Mark Taylor]

Dear DAL,

following my release of taplint (TAP test suite) last week, at least
one person has pointed out there is an error in the logic of how
row overflows are checked.  You can get a version that fixes that here:

   ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/stilts/pre/

thanks

Mark

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Mark Taylor wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> There is a new release of STILTS, v2.3-1, available at the usual place:
> 
>    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/
> 
> The main new item in this release is the taplint command, which
> is a test suite for TAP services.  This is not expected to be of
> interest to most users, but those developing or running a TAP 
> service might like to run it against their service to see what
> issues are identified (hence the DAL list crosspost).
> 
> Documentation for taplint is at:
> 
>    http://www.starlink.ac.uk/stilts/sun256/taplint.html
> 
> and invocation having downloaded the jar file is as straightforward as:
> 
>    java -jar stilts.jar taplint <tap-service-url>
> 
> See the documentation for discussion of options to customise the
> output or tests performed.
> 
> Taplint is not comprehensive and is somewhat experimental.  It is
> possible that it reports some compliance errors for compliant services,
> and it certainly does not test everything.  Although I don't have
> an unlimited amount of time to work on it, I would be happy to 
> work with TAP developers to fix errors or possibly improve or add
> tests.  All feedback is in any case welcome.
> 
> A couple of bugfixes and minor functionality enhancements are also
> included in this release, and there is an accompanying release 
> of STIL (v3.0-2).
> 
> Mark
> 
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> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
> 

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/