[qmtest] partial order on prereqs independent of outcome?

[Stefan Seefeld]

Allyn Dimock wrote:

> (1) What do I need to subclass or patch to make the running of a test a 
> prerequisite if another test independent of the outcome of the first test.

I don't think it is a good idea to try to use prerequisite tests for
scheduling. Parallelism is what targets are meant to address.

> (2) Is this requirement encountered often enought that it should be 
> considered for inclusion in future releases?

I haven't seen such a requirement before, and I'm not sure what to propose.
While I understand the problem you are trying to solve I don't think that
such a feature fits well into QMTest concepts. QMTest simply doesn't have
any way to express can-run-in-parallel and can-not-run-in-parallel properties.
It would be much easier to reduce the overal concurrency of your test runs,
though that obviously means longer build cycles.

Thanks,
		Stefan