[webkit-dev] LayoutTests results fallback graph

[Dirk Pranke]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> 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
>

In addition, we do actually have a 'chromium-mac'; we don't have a
'chromium-mac-snowleopard'. I think I mixed that in my mind while
typing this with the apple mac ports, where there are mac-leopard,
mac-sl, and mac ports (the latter representing lion/future).

Once Lion ships, chromium will undoubtedly add a chromium-mac-snowleopard dir.

-- Dirk