[webkit-dev] LayoutTests results fallback graph

[Adam Barth]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hum. I take it back ... it still wouldn't be a tree, since
>> chromium-mac-leopard would fall back to chromium-mac-snowleopard, then
>> mac-leopard, but chromium-mac-snow-leopard would fall back to
>> mac-snowleopard (giving chromium-mac-snowleopard two parents). And it
>> looks like chromium-mac-leopard picks up 3,494 baselines from
>> mac-leopard :(.
>
> Can we create chromium-mac and move everything that's shared between
> chromium-mac-leopard and chromium-mac-snowleopard there?
> It seems wrong for chromium-mac-leopard to fallback to
> chromium-mac-snowleopard.

This somewhat surprising fallback strategy is common across ports.
The "why" is explained on this wiki page:

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/LayoutTestsSearchPath

Adam