Closed Bug 1160539 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Package mach in tests.zip and create bootstrap script for a test package environment

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1058923

People

(Reporter: ahal, Assigned: ahal)

Details

It's always been really hard to run tests from a downloaded tests.zip (i.e without an objdir). We'd like to provide at least an obvious way of invoking a test harness without needing to ping irc or sift through docs on MDN. Mach is the logical choice for command discovery.

Chris, I'm not sure how close you are to landing your tests.zip split up patch.. but this should have minimal impact as this is stuff that should go into the "common.zip" (or whatever its equivalent is).
I know we talked about this a bit, but putting the mach script inside the test package still leaves you with a bootstrapping problem, in that you have to know where to find and download the test packages before you can run mach.
I think that's a separate problem which this isn't intended to solve. This will give developers an easy way to see which test harnesses they can run from a test bundle and provide defaults where possible (i.e --testing-modules-dir=modules) and sane error messages where it's not. Most of this logic is being implemented within the test harness itself as part of the effort to consolidate the mach/mozharness entry points. This bug is more of a minor convenience that's made easy by the other work.

As for the problem of downloading the tests.zip, I see no reason why we can't have an in-tree mach command capable of that as well.
I'm trying to get the harness split landed in the next month (the first part is about ready for review). Like you said, this should be minimal impact, there's a small amount of logic that will be in mozharness to download and unpack required zips we can borrow here.

Is this a dupe or dependency of bug 1058923? People following that bug might be interested.
Lol, that's embarrassing. It's even assigned to me.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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