2010/8/31 Leon Woestenberg <[email protected]>: > Hello Florian, Frans, > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks > <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2010/8/31 Florian Boor <[email protected]>: >>> >>> I do not agree with this. Some older Gtk+ releases are useful on devices >>> with >>> limited RAM and we have some patches for these we do not have for modern >>> ones. >> >> Ok. I restore as soon as I can (don't have access to a git tree right now). >> > > I agree with Florian to keep those packages, but I praise the effort > of Frans to clean our meta-mess a bit. > > Some packages have a tendency to increase their dependency tree each > time a new major release is made, and especially for those recipes, > keeping more limited (or more efficient?) versions around is very > handy for embedded applications. > Newer is not always better (look at the latest few Linux kernel > releases to see why :-) ) > > However, we should mention this fact in the recipe, so that any new > pair of eyes that decides to delete them can weight this in. > > So my kind request would be to revert and then add a note in the older > recipe to keep them alive as they are superior in cases where low > memory is involved, or a specific device patch is applied. > > Regards, > -- > Leon
Reverted as requested. Btw not all the lower numbered versions were deleted, only the ones marked with * below (which are now restored. We now have: gtk+-1.2_1.2.10.bb gtk+-fastscaling_2.10.14.bb gtk+_2.10.14.bb gtk+_2.14.1.bb * gtk+_2.14.2.bb gtk+_2.16.4.bb * gtk+_2.16.6.bb * gtk+_2.18.0.bb * gtk+_2.18.3.bb * gtk+_2.18.6.bb gtk+_2.20.0.bb gtk+_2.20.1.bb gtk+_2.6.10.bb Enjoy them :-) Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
