[webkit-dev] do you want "WK1" and "WK2" keywords in the TestExpectations files?

Dirk Pranke dpranke at chromium.org
Tue Nov 13 12:06:15 PST 2012


On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Raphael Kubo da Costa
<rakuco at webkit.org> wrote:
> Dirk Pranke <dpranke at chromium.org> writes:
>
>> So, it seems like WK1 and WK2 keywords might be useful. However, I
>> don't really want to add more divergence between ports, so it would be
>> nice to have everyone agree to use it if we were to add it.
>>
>> What do you all think? Would you like this feature, and would you all
>> use it ?
>
> At least on the EFL side I think things are good the way they are: we
> have platform/efl for common stuff and platform/efl-wk1 and
> platform/efl-wk2 for WK1- or WK2-specific stuff (not only
> TestExpectations files but also test results). If we got rid of those
> and put everything together in platform/efl, I think we'd end up with a
> very big TestExpectations file and don't know what we'd do with the
> occasional different results for WK1 and WK2.
>
>> However, this is a little awkward and gets worse if you also need to
>> support different expectations for multiple different configs (e.g.,
>> mac-lion vs mac-snowleopard vs mac-mountainlion).
>
> It wouldn't really solve this problem, right?
>

Well, it might help with the combinatorial explosion of -wk2 files, so
you wouldn't need a mac-lion-wk2/TestExpectations.

-- Dirk


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