[webkit-dev] can we stop using Skipped files?

[Balazs Kelemen]

On 06/08/2012 09:46 AM, Osztrogonac Csaba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dirk Pranke írta:
>> I believe most if not all of the ports have started using either
>> TestExpectations files or a combination of TestExpectations files
>> (except for the Apple Win port).
>>
>> Can we explicitly switch to the TestExpectations files at this point
>> and drop support for Skipped files on the other ports (and perhaps
>> disable old-run-webkit-tests for all but apple win)?
>
> Until NRWT can't handle cascaded TestExpectations - 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65834,
> Qt port can't drop supporting Skipped files. We have many tests 
> skipped in qt-5.0, qt-5.0-wk1,
> qt-5.0-wk2, wk2 Skipped lists. We can't migrate all of them to the 
> only one TestExpectations.
>
> And I disagree with disabling ORWT at all. Qt port still support using 
> ORWT locally.
> It is better for gardening than NRWT. NRWT regularly has problems with 
> generating
> new results for a given platform dir (qt,qt-5.0,qt-5.0-wk1,...), it 
> doesn't support
> the good --skipped=only option . If folks don't want to use it, just 
> not use, but
> disabling for everyone by fiat isn't a friendly thing.
>

1. These are real weaknesses of nrwt, we should fix them. If gardening 
is better with orwt (i doubt that is the case, but I don't do gardening 
regularly), we should improve nrwt, i.e. reimplement features from orwt.
2. I believe basically everybody agrees that we should drop orwt, except 
you Ossy. Maybe I'm wrong. So, is there anybody still want to have 
support for orwt? If so, why?

-kbalazs