On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Paul Eggleton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 28 September 2012 11:27:37 Rudolf Streif wrote: >> Unfortunately, changing variables like P, PN, PV, PR etc. >> may cause some pain. If a transition is what the broader community would >> like to achieve then a period where old and new variables can be used >> interchangeably (if possible) would be the way to go. > > I'm not sure there's a huge amount to be gained by doing this when weighed > against the cost - it would certainly cause a massive amount of churn, with > the potential for problems with layer interaction where one layer has done the > big rename and another that bbappends recipes in the first hasn't.
Not that it matters in the grand scheme of things, but I would be in favour of switching the variable names. Consistency is as consistency does; if there's any hope people can stop confusing "poky" for "yocto", "yocto" with "the yocto project", and "packages" for "recipes" then it needs to be pervasively correct. Provided the Yocto Project continues to grow, changes like this only get harder with time, and if the project gets bigger (i.e. more uses) the confusion only spreads further the longer it is left unchecked. In any case I applaud all the efforts to standardize the wording, especially in the documentation. As such I think it would be quite helpful to have the proposed historical note included. Hopefully, the sooner newcomers are aware of the issue, the less they're likely to trip up over it. _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list [email protected] https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
