[OE-core] RFC: nativesdk and native recipe names

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-12-21 at 12:57 +0100, Anders Darander wrote:
> * Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br> [111221 12:37]:
> > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 09:11, Richard Purdie <
> > richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> >     If we change nativesdk to become a prefix, the problem can share the
> >     same code as multilib and become much more widely usable rather than the
> >     current special cases. Its obviously a fairly major change in recipe
> >     naming though. Would changing this be acceptable?
> 
> > I second this as this makes it more consistent and predictable (with the plus
> > of avoiding naming hacks too).
> 
> I think I'll second this as well...
> 
> So far, I haven't used the multilib-features, but just to be sure, there
> is no problem with using prefixes both for multilibs and nativesdk?
> (Like I said, I haven't studied the multilib code/usecases, thus it's
> quite possible that this is a non-issue).

No, assuming the namespaces are kept separate which isn't an issue as
long as you never want a multilib called "nativesdk" :)

Cheers,

Richard