On Wednesday 25 January 2012 12:48:11 Paul Eggleton wrote: > The meta-oe layer [1] is becoming the home for additional recipes that we > miss from OE-Classic that don't have another obvious layer to go into, and > this is a good thing. However I think that meta-oe is already in a state > where quite a few people feel the new structure is not working for them. > > As I see it, meta-oe is trying provide the following: > > 1) Additional recipes that are not in OE-Core > > 2) Additional functionality for OE-Core recipes that we can't enable in OE- > Core itself (e.g. enabling postgres support in Qt) - mostly just a > side-effect of #1 > > 3) A place to preserve old versions of recipes that have been removed from > OE-Core in favour of newer versions > > 4) Newer less-well tested versions of recipes > > I think what most people want when they enable meta-oe in their layer > configuration is #1, and it's probably OK to get #2 along with it. They do > not however expect versions of toolchains, eglibc or other fairly > fundamental bits and pieces that might cause their build to fail when > everything worked fine just building with OE-Core (#4). Equally I expect > there will be some people who want just #3 and nothing else. > > I understand there is significant value in providing all of these things, I > just think we shouldn't be trying to do them all in one largely indivisible > layer. In our new layer structure we should be able to find a way to split > the metadata so that people who want any combination can still have what we > have in meta-oe today, and yet those who just want one of them don't get > unexpected build failures or older/newer versions being built. > > Thoughts? > > [1] http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe
Koen, as the maintainer of meta-oe would you like to comment on this thread? Thanks, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
