1434075 - packaged mozmill cannot be installed as described in documentation

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Testing Infrastructure, defect)

Description

[Joachim Herb]

On https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_MozMill_Testing/Running_Thunderbird_MozMill_tests_from_packaged_tests it is described how to intstall the packaged mozmill tool and tests:

python resources/installmozmill.py ../mozmill-virtualenv ../mozbase

This worked up to version 59.0a1. But with the current nightly builds of 60.0a1 this does not work anymore:

python resources\installmozmill.py ..\mozmill-virtualenv ..\mozbase
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "resources\installmozmill.py", line 15, in <module>
    import buildconfig
ImportError: No module named buildconfig

It looks like the try server builds (now?) use the mozharness infrastructure. But there seems to be no documentation of this use within thunderbird.

(why I need this: for the development of the addon CompactHeader https://addons.mozilla.org/de/thunderbird/addon/compactheader/ I also use mozmill tests: https://travis-ci.org/jmozmoz/compactheader to make sure there are now regressions. These tests are based on the mozmill tests of Thunderbird)

Comment 1

[Joachim Herb]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1428494 ?

Comment 2

[Joachim Herb]

This is a result of bug #1428494. It can be worked around by links/junctions and a dummy buildconfig.py (in testing/mozmill/resources) file:

import os

substs = {}

substs['top_srcdir'] = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..', '..'))

Then 
cd testing
ln -s tools ../python

I have updated the documentation at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_MozMill_Testing/Running_Thunderbird_MozMill_tests_from_packaged_tests#Setup_mozmill

Comment 3

[Tom Prince [:tomprince]]

I'm not going to get a chance to look at this.