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

[Ojan Vafai]

On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Osztrogonac Csaba <oszi at inf.u-szeged.hu>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<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.


Can you file bugs for these explaining where it does something different
from ORWT? Dirk is actively working on the cascading issue, but I don't
think these other issues are known.

I don't see why it would make sense to keep two parallel tools for this
once all the workflow bugs people have are addressed.


>  If not, what needs to happen so that we can do that? Do we need to
>> land more of the discussed changes to the syntax of the
>> TestExpectations file? Anything else?
>>
>> It would be nice to get rid of the complexity (both in the code and in
>> our heads) if we can.
>>
>> -- Dirk
>>
>
> br,
> Ossy
>
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