Op 1 feb. 2012, om 11:07 heeft Paul Eggleton het volgende geschreven: > 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?
I'm waiting for FOSDEM and ELC to discuss this face to face. _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
