[webkit-dev] Supporting w3c ref tests and changing our convention

[Ojan Vafai]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I am, but I'm particularly concerned about W3C tests. It'll be nice if
>>> we had exactly one way of running / writing ref tests. I think we can
>>> easily automate the process of generating manifest files.
>>>
>>> The work flow will be as follows:
>>>
>>>    1. Write new ref tests using link element
>>>    2. Run some tool (maybe we can teach run-webkit-tests to do it
>>>    automatically)
>>>    3. Upload patch with auto-regenerated manifest file
>>>
>>> It's mainly step 2 that I have a problem with, although I also don't
>> like that the test is not self-contained.
>>
>
> Generating manifest file when we add a test is much more efficient than
> generating it every time we run tests because we tend to do the latter much
> more often than the former.
>

I think we're at an empass here. I don't see that further technical
arguments will sway either of us. I do, however, expect that the vast
majority of webkit developers would prefer to avoid a manifest file given
the way the project has been structured up to now.
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