On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Gregory Szorc <g...@mozilla.com> 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. > I like them :-P The make targets for running tests aren't used by buildbot (well, at least > a lot of them - there might be a straggler or two). > > Putting this all together, the stage is set to remove the make targets for > running tests. > > I'm writing this post to see what obstacles/resistance there are to > removing the make targets for running tests. Obviously a prerequisite is > having mach reach feature parity with the make targets. What other concerns > are there? > Does running tests through mach work if you're not doing anything else through mach? That would be my big concern. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
