On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote: >> In partial reply to my own question, this has been discussed 2 years ago, >> but >> apparently nothing ever came out of it. >> >> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056050.html >> >> So once more the request to be able to get sane version strings for git >> repos. >> Can we please just move gitpkgv. That's like five minutes work, and if anyone >> (e.g. me) feels like building something better, he or she is free do submit >> that and get rid of the gitpkgv class once it's obsolete. > > I do feel quite strongly that this is something which should get > improved in the fetcher itself. That is why I've pushed back on the > patch since if I take it into OE-Core, there is even less incentive to > fix the real problem...
Mike I am also an user of gitpkgv but I must to agree with Richard here. Moving this to OE-Core will just make it worse. It is way better to prepare a patch and add support for it on the fetcher code of BitBake. -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems http://www.ossystems.com.br http://code.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 (53) 9981-7854 Mobile: +1 (347) 903-9750 -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
