Re: [gnome-desktop-testing] Significant Mago Changes Ahead

[Ara Pulido <ara ubuntu com>]

Thanks Eitan and Javier!

That helps a lot!!
As soon as you push your changes into trunk, I will package mago for 
Ubuntu to have it ready for Karmic!

Thanks again to you both! You guys are awesome!
Ara.


Eitan Isaacson wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks to Javier's work, we are about to merge significant changes into Mago.
>
> From a code perspective, essentially, Javier factored out the large
> executable script and created a mago.cmd package with prettier and
> reusable code. This let's us programatically use mago from other
> python programs without running it from the command line. This is
> important for Checkbox integration.
>
> From a user perspective, the command line options changed a bit, and
> there are new environment variables that could be used to alter Mago's
> behavior:
>
> 1. $MAGO_SHARE points either to the $(prefix)/share/mago directory or
> the build directory if Mago is not installed.
> 2. $MAGO_PATH is a search path that by default includes the current
> directory and $MAGO_SHARE, this is where test suite sub-directories
> are searched for.
> 3. The command line options changes are as follows:
>  3.1. Instead of "-s" for suite name to run, it is "-n/--suite-name"
>  3.2. Added "-i/--info". This prints the list of the discovered
> apps/suites/cases to standard output.
>
> I hope this is not too disruptive for anyone. I will be merging this
> into trunk soon. Please continue providing feedback on these changes
> as we move forward.
>
> Cheers,
>   Eitan.
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