On Thursday 28 May 2015 12:46:33 Andreas Müller wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Martin Jansa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm still working on finishing 5.5-beta1 recipes for qt5, I'm getting > > tired of maintaining 2 sets of patches and 2 versions of recipes in the > > same layer branch. > > > > 1) Would people mind dropping 5.4 support in master branch (who wants to > > use 5.4 can continue to use "fido" branch of meta-qt5, there are patches > > for 5.4.2 git recipes as well). > > As soon as 5.5 is out I have no problem. > > > 2) Would people mind having only git recipes? It will be easier to > > update them. Only disadvantages I can think of are the need to clone > > from git and not being aligned with exact release for long time (git > > recipes usually track newer revisions in e.g. 5.4 branch than 5.4.0 or > > 5.4.1 tarbal recipes. > > Advantage for me would be that recipe-wise changing versions for test > is easier - so no I appreciate.
Indeed, it sounds reasonable. My only question though would be is there a significant penalty in terms of do_fetch time? We've had complaints about other recipes that fetch large git repos taking ridiculously long to fetch. > > If we all use the same version from the same recipes then we can test it > > better and it will be much easier to maintain. > > I think it's time to mention: Thanks for maintaining qt5 and other > layers - you do an excellent job! Seconded!! Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
