[Piglit] Generate testlists at buildtime

[Paul Berry]

On 9 September 2013 16:46, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 09 September 2013 16:34:08 you wrote:
> > This series changes the way testlists are generated. This allows us to
> > generate a TestProfile object only once, at build time. This is
> > accomplished by using python's pickle module, which stores a python
> > object representation as a plain text file.
> >
> > The first 9 patches touch all of the testfiles the majority of these
> > patches simply replace ``from <foo> import *'' with explicit imports.
> > This is the recomended way of doing things from the python devs. r600 is
> > removed, since it *is* quick-driver.tests, as is external-glparser.tests
> > since it is deprecated.
> >
> > The last patch does all of the heavy lifting, moving all of the tests
> > files to a new folder, and adding the CMake magic to generate the
> > testslists
> >
> > There are a couple of reasons for doing this:
> > 1) Since piglit-run is no longer responsible for producing
> >    the TestProfile objects, it is much simpler to change the format
> >    they are stored it. This is to our advantage as we try to create a
> >    python3 branch of piglit since ``execfile'' is deprecated in python3
> >
> > 2) This takes a few seconds off the start of piglit-run, since all of
> >    the heavy liftiner of running the python *tests files are removed,
> >    instead being done durring build time
>
> This is also available at my github:
> https://github.com/crymson/piglit.git generate-tests
>

I see one patch on the github branch that I don't see on the mailing list:

ae04a6b all.tests: Replace import * with only the necissary functions

In that patch, s/necissary/necessary/.

General comment on all the patches that replace "import *" with specific
imports: rather than the variations on "this is bad" in the commit
messages, I would just quote the relevant text from PEP 8, which says:

    "Wildcard imports (from <module> import *) should be avoided, as they
make it unclear which names are present in the namespace, confusing both
readers and many automated tools."

This will be helpful in case someone goes digging through git history later
trying to understand why you did what you did.

With that change, all patches but the last are:

Reviewed-by: Paul Berry <stereotype441 at gmail.com>

Regarding the last patch, it looks like the mailing list ate it because all
the renamed files made it too big.  I'm going to re-generate the patch
using "--find-renames" and re-send it; then I'll reply to it with my
comments.
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