[qmtest] Prerequisite tests problems

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Thursday, August 01, 2002 04:20:58 PM +0400 Vladimir Prus 
<ghost at cs.msu.su> wrote:

>
> Hello,
> I've trying to specify a test called "history.empty_main" as prerequisite
> for  "time.empty_main" and cannot. The list of possible to in
> prerequisite adding  dialog includes only time* tests and when I try
> "history.empty_main"  manually, it results in message
>
>     KeyError: history.empty_main
>
> in the console, and test is simply not run -- without no messages in the
> gui.

That is definitely a bug.

> Is is possible to specify prerequisite tests from different directory,
> and  how?

I've done a little research on this, and it looks like this was an
intentional design choice.  The idea was that if you could choose as
a prerequisite a test from outside the current directory tree, then
it would be hard to move directories around -- you might move the
directory and lose a prerequisite.

I'm not sure how compelling of a reason that is.  What do you think?

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