[OE-core] [RFC] Working toward a GNOME layer

[Koen Kooi]

Op 21 apr 2011, om 18:40 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:

> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:05 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Thursday 21 April 2011 15:02:49 Koen Kooi wrote:
>>> and possibly more. I would like to create a meta-gnome layer in the
>>> meta-openembedded repository where new recipes get added and things from
>>> meta-demoapps can get moved over into. Long term recipes-gnome in oe-core
>>> should move there as well.
>>> 
>>> What are your thoughts on this?
> 
> +1
> 
>> 
>> From my perspective this sounds like a great idea. The only question would be 
>> how much of the "GNOME" libs would remain in oe-core as some of them are quite 
>> widely used outside of GNOME proper; however that can easily be worked out as 
>> these things mature.
> 
> +1
> 
> My personal opinion would be that we start with glib & gtk+ (plus their
> dependencies, i.e. pango, atk, etc) in core and move the rest out to a
> layer.
> 
> I feel that Gtk+ is used by enough non-gnome software that it belongs in
> core but others may disagree?
> 
> Between meta/recipes-gnome and meta-demoapps we have a reasonable start
> to a meta-gnome/

Where did meta-demoapps go? It's not in OE-core anymore by the looks of it.

> I'd be happy to help with this layer.

Awesome, do you have any objection to put meta-gnome into the meta-openembedded repo for the time being? Once we get better tooling we can move it elsewhere, of course.

regards,

Koen