Windmill and mozrunner 2.x

Andrea Corbellini

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Mar 2, 2011, 11:44:09 AM3/2/11

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Hi all,

I'm trying to package Windmill for the GNU/Linux distributions Debian
and Ubuntu. Unfortunately I have seen that Windmill is using the
version 1.3 of mozrunner, instead of the latest one (2.5.3). From my
prospective, this is a problem because, if possible, only the latest
version of a software should be packaged.

Reading the comments in the code, I see that mozrunner 1.3 is used
because "2.x doesn't have global_settings anymore". So I would like to
ask you:

* Do you have any plans to support the version 2.x of mozrunner?
* If global_settings is really needed, are there any plans to re-add
it to mozrunner?

I'm a Python developer and I'd happy to spend some of my time on the
project, if you need a hand.

Thanks,
Andrea

Adam Christian

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Mar 2, 2011, 1:09:16 PM3/2/11

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Hi Andrea,

The main reason this hasn't happened is because I'm not much of a Python developer, and Mikeal (who wrote all that python code) is super busy doing other stuff. I would really like to get Windmill using the latest mozrunner but it's a little bit out of my scope/skills.

I am CC'ing Mikeal to see if he can give you some input on how to go about doing this migration. Thanks for your time and interest!

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Andrea Corbellini

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Mar 22, 2011, 2:56:40 PM3/22/11

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Hello,

It is passed some time, and I haven't received any response from Mikeal.
However that's not a problem: if he is busy with other things, I can
perfectly understand his situation.

Anyhow, I'll try to work on the migration. I just have to say that I
can't start right now because I have too many things to look at in this
period.

Thanks,
Andrea

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:09 -0800, Adam Christian wrote:
> Hi Andrea,
>
> The main reason this hasn't happened is because I'm not much of a
> Python developer, and Mikeal (who wrote all that python code) is super
> busy doing other stuff. I would really like to get Windmill using the
> latest mozrunner but it's a little bit out of my scope/skills.
>
> I am CC'ing Mikeal to see if he can give you some input on how to go
> about doing this migration. Thanks for your time and interest!
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Adam Christian

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Mar 22, 2011, 3:17:34 PM3/22/11

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I totally understand,

chances are that he is super busy -- however the folks down at mozilla are working with mozrunner a lot and I bet if you emailed ctal...@mozilla.com and asked if he had any insight or knew of anyone that might be able to give you some useful information that might lead you in the right direction.