607155 - [CLI] mozmill should take command line arguments from a configuration file

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing Graveyard :: Mozmill, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

As we get more running parameters, and especially helpful for automation (runs to be repeated many times), mozmill should be able to take arguments from a configuration file.  This should be runnable like

 mozmill -c path/to/conf.file

Subsequent command line arguments would override values in the file.

Two possible file forms:

 - .ini file:  using the [DEFAULTS] section if no section specified (which is "special" in ConfigParser land), otherwise specifiable like

 mozmill -c conf.ini:mysection

 conf.ini may look like:

"""
[mysection]
showall =
app = firefox
binary = /home/jhammel/firefox/firefox
"""

 - a straight command line file:  so you just write the command line arguments to a file which are parsed with file(filename).readlines().split()

Comment 1

[cmtalbert]

This is a nice to have, I think we may do this for 2.1, probably not for 2.0.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 10/03 - 10/13)]

Mozmill will reach its end of life soon. We are currently working on getting all the tests for Firefox ported to Marionette. For status updates please see bug 1080766.