[webkit-dev] LayoutTests results fallback graph

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Jul 10, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> Because the LayoutTest fallback graph is a mess, hence this email thread.  :)
> 
> More proximately, because when the "chromium-mac-leopard" (for
> example) fallback path flows through "mac-leopard", it flows to
> "mac-snowleopard" alongside the fallback path that originates with
> "mac-leopard".  Now, in the case of "win", when the "chromium-win"
> (for example) fallback path flows through "win", it flows thereafter
> to "mac" directly whereas the fallback path that originates with "win"
> takes a detour by way of "mac-snowleopard".  The fact that these two
> fallback paths diverge at this point is one of the reasons the
> fallback graph is not a tree.

I think the bug here is the fact that chromium-win falls back to mac rather than mac-snowleopard, not that win falls back to mac-snowleopard instead of mac.

Regards,
Maciej