On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:16:42PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:06 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > * git grep shows that all distributions (in OE tree) moved to > > > preferred-xorg-versions-X11R7.5.inc already > > > * would be nice to encourage everybody to use most tested X11R7.5 or > > > no preferred-xorg-versions at all (we can keep latest versions working > > > and use D_P -1 for stuff which needs more testing first) > > > * replace preferred-xorg-versions.inc with link always adjusted to > > > latest relase (is there any problem with symlink in OE tree?) > > > * this would also make easier to remove really old versions when it's > > > hard to test some changes (like converting libx11 staging) > > Rather than the symlink, how about adding: > > PREFERRED_XORG_VERSION ?= "X11R7.5" > > in some generic place, and encouraging distros to include > preferred-xorg-versions-${PREFERRED_XORG_VERSION}.inc if they so desire?
Yes this looks like better solution. Thanks > I don't have much of a view on deleting the old include files. On the > one hand it seems a bit of a shame to remove them, since they aren't > doing any harm (and, being .incs, aren't even adding to parse time). > But I don't use them myself and I find it hard to get very excited about > the issue. I don't use them too, so the most important points are * encourage everybody to use most tested X11R7.5 * easier remove recipes of really old versions or "not latest minor" Regards, -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
