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

[Joshua Lock]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 20:12 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> Op 21 apr 2011, om 19:41 heeft Joshua Lock het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I just sent out 10 patches for review that import recipes-gnome from meta-demoapps into meta-gnome. Please review :)

The way I see it there are two approaches, tidy & test the recipes then
merge *or* merge then fix.

If we're going for the latter approach let's get your patches merged!

This does raise another question, is meta-oe striving for the same
standards of metadata as oe-core? i.e. SRC_URI & license checksums,
updated patch syntax, etc.

Also, how much gnome do we want to support? Are we trying to be all new
and shiny and drop deprecated libraries (gnome-vfs)?

Just trying to work out what patches to work on ;-) Perhaps we can
define a policy of what's appropriate for the layer in a README?

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