Bug 10912

Summary:	run-webkit-tests has become an unmaintainable ball of perl snot
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Eric Seidel (no email) <eric>
Component:	Tools / Tests	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	Normal	CC:	ap, ddkilzer, sam
Priority:	P4
Version:	420+
Hardware:	Mac
OS:	OS X 10.4
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	10906

Description Eric Seidel (no email) 2006-09-18 01:53:06 PDT

run-webkit-tests needs some serious re-factoring.  I looked briefly at solving bug 10906 this evening, but quickly gave up.  run-webkit-tests may need to move away from Perl entirely, as perl's lack of real class support is a serious limitation, causing overly awkward code.

My suggestion would be that a pair of people work together to commit small incremental improvements (mostly breaking everything out into subroutines) in rapid succession, with a review on each improvement.

Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2007-10-18 01:03:56 PDT

This bug isn't actually very useful, and probably should just be closed.  The fact remains though, run-webkit-tests is uggggly.

Comment 2 Alexey Proskuryakov 2007-10-18 02:28:07 PDT

Closing per the above comment.

Personally, I haven't heard of people having much trouble hacking run-webkit-tests, aside from bug 10906, which isn't quite trivial conceptually, anyway.