[webkit-dev] Chromium Mac moving to Skia

[Maciej Stachowiak]

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