840007 - Marionette needs a Mach/make target on desktop builds

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 799308

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Now that Marionette is running on tinderbox for desktop Firefox builds, developers need a simple way to reproduce oranges on their local machine. The current setup is pretty inscrutable, and made worse by the fact that most of the documentation for Marionette is about B2G.

Ideally, we'd have some sort of "make marionette" target that could run in the object directory, with optional environmental variables to select a subset of tests and launch a debugger.

A mach target would be good too. :-)

Comment 1

[:Ms2ger (he/him; ⌚ UTC+1/+2)]

Fwiw, I don't think we should add make targets at this point.

Comment 2

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

(In reply to :Ms2ger from comment #1)
> Fwiw, I don't think we should add make targets at this point.

I don't particularly care whether it's a make or a mach target. I just want to be able to run them easily.

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

testsuite-targets.mk is not used by automation and the UX of mach is superior to make. So, my vote is to implement a mach command and omit a make target. If you really want a make target, you could have it call out to mach (i.e do the heavy lifting in Python instead of make).

Anyway, we already have bug 799308 on file for a mach command. And, there is even a PoC patch! The mach API has likely changed since that patch was authored, so watch out!