[webkit-dev] LayoutTestHelper

[Dirk Pranke]

On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 29, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
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>> Hi folks,
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>> new-run-webkit-tests seems to mess with the system color profile on Mac, even when not running pixel tests. Historically, I believe we did this only when running pixel tests. I noticed that this is because it launches the LayoutTestHelper tool unconditionally, and in addition to changing the color profile on Mac, it also changes font smoothing settings on Windows. Does anyone know whether this work is required when running non-pixel tests? If not, I'd like to change NRWT to only launch LayoutTestHelper in pixel mode, and perhaps also rename LayoutTestHelper to PixelTestHelper.
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> I went ahead assumed that this tool was never necessary for non-pixel tests, if I'm wrong, please comment here: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81729>
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You're wrong :). I commented on the bug as well, but for the record
the chromium android port,at least, requires that that method be
called regardless of whether pixel tests are being run or not. I had
thought at some point that the chromium layout test helper did some
things that were needed on windows regardless of whether the pixel
tests were being run, but my memory might be failing me.

It was always the intent that the start_helper() hook be generic.
However, that routine was written before we had a setup_test_run()
method, so it's probable that we could move all of the non-pixel logic
into that method.

-- Dirk