[OE-core] proper(?) way to *require* an earlier, unsupported version of a recipe file?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 12:02 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > what is the OE philosophy for preferring an earlier version of a
> > recipe file that doesn't even exist anymore?  for example, the
> > "watchdog" recipe was recently upgraded from 5.11 to 5.12.  in the
> > process, the recipe file for 5.11 was removed; therefore, i interpret
> > that as that OE-core no longer supports that version, which is fine.
> >
> >   hypothetically, what if someone still *needed* that earlier version?
> > would it be their responsibility to, say, create a new layer that
> > re-introduced that older, now-unsupported version?  just curious.
>
> Well, if there is some reason 5.11 is much better "we" as in OE-Core
> would like to know about it to evaluate if we should be keeping it
> around for some reason. If the reason you want that particular version
> is specific to you then yes, your own layer would be the place to
> maintain it (or a layer shared with other like minded users).

  there was nothing about 5.11 that i see as superior, it's just that
that general question came up last week in class and my admittedly
off-the-cuff answer was that OE-core provided a well-defined, stable
set of recipes to build on and if you *chose* to deviate in any way
from that, that was kind of your problem and you had to deal with it.

  which appears to be pretty much what you're saying.  thanks.

rday

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