On Friday, November 2, 2012 8:44:03 AM UTC-7, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2012-11-01 8:47 PM, Dave Mandelin wrote: > > > |-- tests/ > > > |-- browser-chrome/ > > > |-- topic1 (omit this level if there would be only one) > > > |-- topic2 > > > |-- [...] > > > |-- chrome/ > > > |-- crashtests/ > > > |-- marionette/ > > > |-- mochitests/ > > > |-- reftests/ > > > |-- xpcshell > > > |-- [..]/ > > > > I think the reason that this is a problem in the eyes of some people is > > that some of our test frameworks don't use manifests (for example, > > mochitests) and rely on make rules. If we fixed that problem, those who > > are interested in seeing all of the tests in the same directory can > > write their own tools to create whatever directory structure they need. > > But the benefits of moving the tests in the tree are questionable for > > people who work on specific areas of the code base, which I believe is > > the majority of Gecko hackers.
Fair enough. There's a resounding call not to consolidate the test directories in one place. Dave _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
