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

[Ryosuke Niwa]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> wrote:

> 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.
>

We've still got too many --verbose/--details options.

Can we just combine two --verbose and --details or remove one of them and
call it --debug?

- Ryosuke
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