On Aug 16, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
Hi WebKit,
In an effort to make the Chromium port more consistent across platforms, we're moving the Chromium Mac port from CoreGraphics to Skia. This should mostly have little effect on the rest of the WebKit community, but you'll be seeing some patches shortly that shuffle a bunch of test expectations around so that we can make the transition carefully and avoid regressions. Specifically, we're planing to do the following:
1) Move the chromium-mac and chromium-mac-leopard results directories to chromium-mac-cg and chromium-mac-cg-leopard, respectively. This will let use keep both CG and Skia results during the transition so that we can compare them and avoid regressions.
How long would you expect to keep both around? Currently half the platform results directories are Chromium, comprising a third of the LayoutTests/platform directory and a quarter of all of LayoutTests. These results directories also tend to change far more frequently than others. I am worried about the long-term impact of adding even more Chromium results, since svn update times are already very high and typically spend a large proportion of their time updating Chromium expectations. Do you have an estimate of the impact on checkout times? Regards, Maciej