Closed Bug 372391 Opened 17 years ago Closed 14 years ago

reftest manifests should use a different comment character

Categories

(Testing :: Reftest, defect)

Product:
Testing
Component:
Reftest
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: sayrer, Unassigned)

References

Details

I have a test that needs a fragment identifier in the URI, but reftest uses '#' to signal a comment.
Blocks: 372377
"|" is an alternative that isn't allowed to appear in a URI. ";" is a delimiter in a query string. However, it seems unlikely that we'll ever need to test ";" behavior, and I realize "|" isn't very comment-like. Your call.
"|" does appear in some web site URLs and in most file: URLs on Windows.  See duplicates of bug 221445 for some examples.  Maybe reftests won't use those URLs, though.

How about continuing to use "#" but only treating it as a comment if it is at the beginning of a line or immediately preceded by whitespace?
Component: Testing → Reftest
Product: Core → Testing
Version: Trunk → unspecified
QA Contact: testing → reftest
(In reply to comment #3)
> How about continuing to use "#" but only treating it as a comment if it is at
> the beginning of a line or immediately preceded by whitespace?

We now do that, so sayre's use case would seem to be fixed. Okay to close this Robert?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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