On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Burton, Ross <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 21 August 2013 11:24, Laszlo Papp <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am not saying to fix gtk-doc-stub only. I am saying fix the nastiness >> of using git repositories for released and supposedly stable versions. I do >> not see why tarball would not be enough for those to work off-hand? That >> should be the ideal architecture IMHO. >> > > Two good reasons to allow git repositories as a source: > > 1) Many projects don't make tarball releases. > That does not mean bitbake cannot generate tarball out of the git repository. In fact, it is relatively simple. ;-) > 2) It's incredibly useful to be able to build from git snapshots for > development/testing purposes. > I was explicitly mentioning stable and official released variants. What you're asking for is the inability to use git repositories in SRC_URI, > which won't happen. > No, that is not what I am asking. Here you can find the feature request: https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5035 Cheers, L.
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