[OE-core] [PATCH 0/4] Recipes for Clutter 1.6

[Richard Purdie]

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 19:43 +0100, Joshua Lock wrote: 
> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 19:44 +0200, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> > On Monday 28 March 2011 16:28:23 Joshua Lock wrote:
> > > From: Joshua Lock <josh at linux.intel.com>

> > >  create mode 100644 meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-1.6_1.6.8.bb
> > >  create mode 100644
> > > meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-box2d-1.6_0.10.0.bb create mode
> > > 100644
> > > meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-box2d/fix-disable-introspection.patc
> > > h create mode 100644 meta/recipes-graphics/clutter/clutter-gst-1.6_1.3.6.bb
> > Is version in recipe name really required (it clutters all the dependent 
> > recipes)?
> 
> I'm just following precedent set by the existing recipes in oe-core. I'm
> not particularly fond of it myself either.
> 
> I'm not sure if we're able to set a specific recipe version in the
> DEPENDS without doing something like this, however. At least if we can
> do it I've not seen it.

Clutter is a special case as by design, its meant to be parallel
installable and you need to depend on a specific library version. The
versions are not backwards compatible. We're therefore following the
projects requirements by doing this and don't have much choice.

Cheers,

Richard