[Piglit] NOTICE: json, old result files, and piglit-summary-html

[Ian Romanick]

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On 07/15/2011 12:11 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 07/14/2011 02:15 PM, Chad Versace wrote:
>> As you may have noticed, piglit-run.py now uses json for the result file format.
> 
> I just noticed one other difference that could be really, really
> frustrating.  The test results are *ONLY* logged at the end of the test
> run.  What happens if my system crashes part way through?  I get no test
> results and no idea which test crashed. :(  That seems pretty bad.

It also fails to generate a results file if I ctrl-c out of a test run.

>> If piglit-summary-html.py is passed result files in the old format, those
>> files will not be read. A warning is emitted and the file is skipped.
> 
>> If anyone has an archive of old Piglit result files that they need converted to
>> the new json format, please let me know. If there is demand, then I will write
>> the conversion script.
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