I'm not currently working on bindings, so I don't have very strong opinions for or against the script.
I added it to the bots back in June so that the results would stop breaking. It's possible such script would be more useful w/o checked in results, unclear. I will point out that Darin Adler, was at one point at least one happy customer of this script: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62880#c5 -eric On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Alexey Proskuryakov <a...@webkit.org> wrote: > > 08.09.2011, в 11:32, Eric Seidel написал(а): > >> FYI: As many of you already know, the build.webkit.org bots run >> "run-bindings-tests" on (almost) all platforms. >> >> They've been running (mostly w/o incident) on the bots since 6/20: >> http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/89267 >> >> >> These just make sure that our generated bindings look sane, by >> comparing the generated results against checked-in baselines. >> >> run-bindings-tests makes it easier to make cross-platform bindings >> changes w/o needing a Gtk/Qt/V8/etc. port of WebKit. >> >> If you're changing binding generation you should be aware of this script. > > As discussed on IRC, I do not think that bots should run this test at all. It > has a non-trivial maintenance cost, but provides very little benefit. Even > the time spent by multiple engineers on IRC today discussing bot complaints > is likely more than the test could save in the lifetime of the project, at my > guesstimate. > > A test like this is almost like keeping a separate text file with a number of > space characters in WebKit sources, and chastising anyone who fails to update > this text file with their commit. Why would we care about the number of > spaces, or about the exact look of generated code? > > Specifically, this is today's failure: > <http://build.webkit.org/builders/SnowLeopard%20Intel%20Release%20%28Tests%29/builds/32923/steps/bindings-generation-tests/logs/stdio> > - a test that complains about such changes doesn't test for the right thing. > > A script like this might be useful to run locally when making bindings > changes if in doubt, comparing "before" and "after" results. There is no need > to check in most recent results for this though. I'm not sure if this gives > you more than manually copying DerivedSources directory and diffing new > derived sources to that, but if someone finds a little automation valuable, > then why not. > > - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
