Currently, the GitHub Servo repository has 134,062 files... 131,477 of which are in the tests/ directory. Of those, 102,871 are in the CSS WG tests. I know it's not a perfect measure, but that's also 862megs of the 1.132gb of disk space usage reported by `du` on macOS for a Servo checkout.
So, I'd like to have a discussion to see if there's something we can do here to reduce the number of files. There are two reasons this has come up: - If we do end up "copying" the Servo GitHub repository into the Mozilla monorepo, unfortunately mercurial cannot scale to that number of files (though there is work going on at Facebook to make it able to do so in the next year or two). Plus, the non-CSS WG tests in the WPT directory are duplicate with those already in m-c. - That's a lot of disk space, and might not be needed for new contributors who working on anything other than layout features. There are a few options I can see here (apart from "do nothing"): 1) Reduce the duplication in the CSS WG tests. A lot of it is due to the build system. How small could we get it? Similar to WPT (i.e., 10x fewer files)? 2) Break out the CSS WG and WPT tests into a separate location, to be downloaded as-needed. If we do this, though, what is the workflow for adding, deleting, or correcting a test? And is it still just as easy to run a single test? Jamming it in a crate will leave it in a wonky directory (e.g., target/debug/build/csswg-7062634bbf237306/output) that is not exactly awesome for viewing & running tests from. Any opinions or other ideas here? Thanks! - Lars _______________________________________________ dev-servo mailing list dev-servo@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-servo
