On Jun 8, 2012, at 4:38 AM, Balazs Kelemen <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 06/08/2012 09:46 AM, Osztrogonac Csaba wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Dirk Pranke írta:
>>> I believe most if not all of the ports have started using either
>>> TestExpectations files or a combination of TestExpectations files
>>> (except for the Apple Win port).
>>> 
>>> Can we explicitly switch to the TestExpectations files at this point
>>> and drop support for Skipped files on the other ports (and perhaps
>>> disable old-run-webkit-tests for all but apple win)?
>> 
>> Until NRWT can't handle cascaded TestExpectations - 
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65834,
>> Qt port can't drop supporting Skipped files. We have many tests skipped in 
>> qt-5.0, qt-5.0-wk1,
>> qt-5.0-wk2, wk2 Skipped lists. We can't migrate all of them to the only one 
>> TestExpectations.
>> 
>> And I disagree with disabling ORWT at all. Qt port still support using ORWT 
>> locally.
>> It is better for gardening than NRWT. NRWT regularly has problems with 
>> generating
>> new results for a given platform dir (qt,qt-5.0,qt-5.0-wk1,...), it doesn't 
>> support
>> the good --skipped=only option . If folks don't want to use it, just not 
>> use, but
>> disabling for everyone by fiat isn't a friendly thing.
> 
> 1. These are real weaknesses of nrwt, we should fix them. If gardening is 
> better with orwt (i doubt that is the case, but I don't do gardening 
> regularly), we should improve nrwt, i.e. reimplement features from orwt.

I applaud your enthusiasm. 

> 2. I believe basically everybody agrees that we should drop orwt, except you 
> Ossy. Maybe I'm wrong. So, is there anybody still want to have support for 
> orwt? If so, why?

I'm with Ossy on this. 

Getting rid of ORWT would be a show stopper for me. 

This talk of fixing bugs in NRWT is really great but until such time as those 
bugs are fixed, let's keep ORWT. 

> 
> -kbalazs
> 
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