On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> On 9 January 2013 11:42, Ross Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 09:33, Marko Lindqvist wrote:
> >> Exactly, except that it would be provided by bitbake, and not
> >> constructed by each recipe itself - less recipe writing work + you
> >> could count on it to always mean same thing.
> >
> > Everything but the last dot, or the first two components, or what?  For 
> > anything GNOMEy you want the first two elements as some packages use nano 
> > releases for development snapshots (1.2.3.4).
> 
>  Ok, do we have any counter-examples where you'd want, say, three out
> of four parts? One out of n? Of course there will always be need to
> use variables of their own in some recipes, but I'm after something
> that would be usable in most cases.

I don't remember where but 1st of 4 is also used. 
What about stuff like "1.2.3.4+gitAUTOINC"?

GNOME is quite consistent, but it still looks better defined in
recipe/bbclass then having "something" defined by bitbake in all recipes
and usable only in some.

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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: [email protected]

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