On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:10:37PM -0400, Zack Weinberg 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.
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