[webkit-dev] impending changes to how new-run-webkit-tests prints/logs stuff

[Dirk Pranke]

Hi all,

I'm finally getting around to cleaning up the byzantine mass of
options in new-run-webkit-tests that controls what gets printed to
stderr and stdout during a test run.

The patch is posted in https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92432.
To quote the changelog:

[All of the --print X,Y,Z options are] replaced by five printing
modes/options:

1) by default, we print some configuration information, errors,
warnings, and a progress bar. We didn't use to print the configuration
information by default, and I've found that (a) it's really useful and
(b) most people didn't know about it. However, if you don't want that
output, use ...

2) if --quiet is passed, we don't print the configuration information
(this was the default before)

3) if --verbose is specified once, you will get a one-line-per test
summary in addition to the default output of (1). This is close to the
--verbose mode from ORWT and is probably more useful than the older
form of --verbose, which printed out a lot more debug-type stuff. To
get the debug-type stuff ...

4) if --verbose is specified twice, you get the old-style debug log output

And, if you used to use the obscure but occasionally really helpful
--print trace-everything flag:

5) if --details is specified, you get the per-test details you used to
get with --print trace-everything or --print trace-unexpected.
--details handling is largely independendent of --quiet/--verbose.

In theory this shouldn't break anything (I tried to keep the output
basically the same on the bots, which have all been updated to pass
--verbose --verbose as necessary), but if you do have other scripts
that will break, either please update them or let me know that I might
need to change things.

Thanks!

-- Dirk