On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Zack Weinberg <za...@panix.com> wrote:
> 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. That's what handles removing mochitests from the source tree in the current setup. You can generally work around it by doing anything other than a top-level | make |, e.g. | make tier_platform | instead. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
