Is the goal moving forward to have "support-files" annotations alongside the test that requires them instead of global to the manifest file?
Will this allow a further optimization of only installing the support-file for tests are being requested? Thanks, Jared On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:55 PM, Christopher Manchester < chmanches...@gmail.com> wrote: > As you may know, manifestparser test manifests (mochitest.ini, browser.ini > and co.) contain a "support-files" field informing the build system certain > files in the tree or generated at build time are required by tests. These > files are currently installed to the objdir for some test flavors and > incorporated into test archives. > > Currently, every support and test file is installed whenever tests are > run, and many tests rely on support files in far away corners of the tree. > We're working to improve our granularity here, so going forward we need to > annotate a support file required by a test if that support file is in a > different directory. > > I've prepared a patch to annotate existing dependencies, which I intend to > land in bug 1242051. For details on the syntax used, please see that bug > and the corresponding update to our in-tree documentation. > > Chris > > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
