Re: [yocto] Google GN support

2022-03-09 Thread Joel Winarske
I had to revisit this for Google Flutter LTS support as upstream (Google Flutter team) wasn't interested in providing tar.xz releases. We have two working solutions for Flutter gclient as of today. 1. gclient fetcher. This fetches the project using gclient and archives the whole source tree. I

Re: [yocto] Google GN support

2021-10-05 Thread Joel Winarske
> look at meta-browser/meta-chromium as well. The download archive (tar.xz) approach may be the easiest solution. Then one would just need to make a versioned recipe for each LTS. Thanks Khem! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#54974)

Re: [yocto] Google GN support

2021-10-05 Thread Khem Raj
On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 2:34 PM Joel Winarske wrote: > > I'm looking into best practice LTS support for Google GN based projects. > This includes Chromium, Flutter, SKIA, etc. > > The weakness I see today for GN projects is that it's a build system within a > build system, and doesn't support i

[yocto] Google GN support

2021-10-05 Thread Joel Winarske
I'm looking into best practice LTS support for Google GN based projects. This includes Chromium, Flutter, SKIA, etc. The weakness I see today for GN projects is that it's a build system within a build system, and doesn't support idiomatic download caching, download vs patching isn't clear as it s