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

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 19:29 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, still exists for me:

joshual at vorpal:~/Projects/Yocto/oe-core/meta-demoapps[master]
$ pwd
/home/joshual/Projects/Yocto/oe-core/meta-demoapps


> 
> > 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.

None whatsoever. I keep meaning to push some recipes into that layer
anyway.

Cheers,
Joshua
-- 
Joshua Lock
        Yocto Build System Monkey
        Intel Open Source Technology Center