Hi Richard, Em ter., 26 de mai. de 2026 às 10:53, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> escreveu: > > Hi Otavio, > > On Tue, 2026-05-19 at 20:11 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > The reason I'm pushing a bit on timing: we're working on the fourth > > edition of our BitBake/Yocto book and are wrapping up the initial > > chapters to send to the technical reviewers. As mentioned before, > > we'd like to use bitbake-setup as the default installation path we > > recommend to readers. We're trying to cover the BitBake setup story > > as thoroughly as we can, and we genuinely believe pip is the more > > user-friendly option for newcomers — the git clone prerequisite is a > > real friction point before they've even built anything. > > > > Would it be fair to assume a non-alpha release on PyPI is realistic > > in the coming weeks? Even a rough sense would help us. If it's > > likely, we'll go ahead and structure the install chapter around `pip > > install bitbake-setup`. If the timeline is more open-ended, we'd > > rather know now so we can lead with the git clone path and keep the > > pip method as a forward-looking note. > > > > And the offer to help stands — happy to test Rob's patches, review > > packaging, contribute documentation, or whatever else would actually > > move things along. > > We talked a bit about it on the weekly call. I think PyPi is the > direction we will go, I'm just really hesitant to give out commitments > on timing. I do expect changes in the coming weeks and hope that we'll > be able to pull things together in that kind of time frame. We just > don't have a plan about how to handle the versioning that I'm happy > with yet and that makes it hard to commit.
Thanks for your honesty — knowing the general direction, even without a specific date, is genuinely helpful. We've chosen to introduce the install section with `pip install bitbake-setup` as the primary method, highlighting the git clone option as a documented alternative just below. We're aligned with your suggested approach and remain optimistic about the timeline — we expect the non-alpha release to arrive sooner rather than later, fitting well within the book's production schedule. We prefer to guide readers toward what we see as the more beginner-friendly option first, with git clone kept as a well-supported backup just beneath. We still welcome the offer to assist—whether it's testing Rob's patches, reviewing packaging, documentation, or other tasks to advance the versioning process. The quicker this is resolved, the more confident we are in our decision. Thanks again, -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9 9981-7854
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