1391682 - |mach try syntax| cannot specify a path with [Windows 8]

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Infrastructure :: Try, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown] (pto Apr 11-18)]

To run tests on try for Windows 8 currently, try syntax requires '[Windows 8]' be explicitly requested. I can't seem to find a way to do that with a path.

This is okay:

./mach try -b do -p win64 -u mochitest-browser-chrome-e10s[Windows\ 8]

and this is okay:

./mach try -b do -p linux64 browser/extensions/formautofill/test/browser

but of course

./mach try -b do -p linux64 browser/extensions/formautofill/test/browser[Windows\ 8]

is an invalid path

and

./mach try -b do -p win64 -u mochitest-browser-chrome-e10s[Windows\ 8] browser/extensions/formautofill/test/browser

pushes to try, but removes the [Windows\ 8], so no tests run.


I had to abandon 'mach try' and construct try syntax manually in my push to get the desired result:

https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=fdfd2a36df00a7b1960443954d775425fa08a649

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

Just to note, you can now run paths with fuzzy:
./mach try fuzzy browser/extensions/formautofill/test/browser

Then just select the windows 8 tasks as normal. My eventual goal is to remove try syntax's implementation of paths, so I'd be inclined to WONTFIX this, but we can leave it open until that actually happens.

Comment 2

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown] (pto Apr 11-18)]

We have good non-syntax try options now.