[OE-core] Replacing Web in Sato with Midori

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:23:08PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 12:01 +0200, Koen Kooi wrote:
> > Op 8 aug. 2012, om 10:41 heeft "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > As everyone who's used it can attest, Web (the optional browser in
> > > Sato) is pretty rough.  Part of my plans about replacing Sato with a
> > > leaner environment involves replacing it with Midori, and if there
> > > isn't any disagreements I'll work on a submission to merge Midori into
> > > Sato now for everyone who expects the Sato web browser to be useful.
> > > 
> > > This will involve pulling a few projects from meta-oe to oe-core:
> > > ca-certificates, python-docutils and vala specifically (although its
> > > possible that we can drop the vala dependency).
> > 
> > Adding more stuff to oe-core is a bad idea. You should take this
> > opportunity to split all the sato stuff into its own layer.
> 
> I feel very strongly that having a core layer with no way of
> demonstrating and testing it is a very bad idea. I haven't changed my
> mind about this and am very unlikely to. "How do you know it works?" is
> the question you ask about package upgrades for example.

And does it need to be in the same layer?

Why not test webkit-gtk from oe-core with midori from meta-oe layer? 
Or meta-browser layer if meta-oe is too big for testing webkit-gtk.

Cheers,

-- 
Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com
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