On 2012-10-08 3:05 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
We now have a tool in mozilla-central that has a much better UX for
running tests (mach). It's not perfect yet, but it's getting there
(please write patches!).
The build peers (or at least a few of us) really don't like the make
targets to run tests because they are awkward, both to maintain and for
people to use. mach and having Python drive everything offer compelling
advantages over simple make targets.
When I run tests locally I do so by hand, because I invariably require
more precise control over how the test suite is operating than the make
targets allow. (I have occasionally even needed to bypass runtest.py.)
I expect mach will have the same problem and so I do not plan to
bother experimenting with it.
My wish for an improvement to the build system is that a top-level make
not delete _tests/testing/mochitest anymore. I'm really tired of having
to cd out of it and back in.
zw
_______________________________________________
dev-platform mailing list
dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
