On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Qingtang Zhou <qz...@redhat.com> wrote: > * On 2012-12-31 17:55:24 -0200, Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues (look...@gmail.com) > wrote: >> Hmmm, about this one, I'm worried about making things more complex... >> >> The way I see the problem at hand, I'd say if people want to customize >> things, they'd be better of creating their own, specialized config >> files rather than adding command line flags to manipulate the test >> sets. > Which kind of user interface do you want to provide to us (autotest user)? > A cli?
"Old autotest" users know and care more about using the cartesian config, and therefore they can make their own .cfg file. The old tests.cfg was saved as tests-example.cfg, so one could use that and build on top of it. If the person wants to run virt-tests using autotest, that's fine, and we'll always support it. > But why does it can't specify more parameters or filters? > A config file? Why don't allow us to update tests.cfg? See, you can always specify a config file: ./run -t qemu -c qemu/cfg/my-custom-file.cfg The idea behind tests.cfg is that it's reserved for the test runner. It's not a lot to ask I think, given that you can use a custom file with -c. > I'm totally confused. I understand. You could be more willing to understand that we're doing the possible to accomodate users that: a) Don't care about 'autotest'. They just want a simple way to get to test execution. b) Don't care about 'cartesian files'. It's always been a point of endless complaint, and I hope eventually we can get rid of it. While we can't figure out how to do it, I'm trying to at least mitigate the situation by making it *as transparent as possible* to users that fit into a) and b). I said I'm in principle against Amos' patch, but if you guys can enlighten me as of why it's beneficial, I can change my mind. > And why must I download that JeOS image? You don't. There's always the option of doing things the 'old' way, running the tests under autotest, etc. If you want a tutorial on how to do that, I could write one. > I've setup my own image, why can't I use it directly? I'm working on a way of doing it from the test runner. > Well, I prefer the old autotest style more now. I won't say I liked the tone of your message, but let me try to be objective and constructive: 1) It's not our intention to piss off the people who have been using and developing our tests over the last 4 years. 2) It helps a lot opening issues and stating clearly what are the problems you are seeing with the recent changes, remarks, and how you see it could be solved. I think we can work this out together. Thanks, Lucas
