[OE-core] Proposal: Creating meta-networking

[Chris Larson]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Joe MacDonald <joe at deserted.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 2:20 PM, Christopher Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, June 15, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Joe MacDonald wrote:
>>
>> We've been talking about this on-and-off at Wind River for a while now,
>> but it now seems like a reasonable time to bring a proposal to the OE
>> community at large. We're thinking about creating a new layer to house
>> recipes, etc. for networking packages. I'll try to address what seem to
>> be the most immediate questions (certainly the ones we've been thinking
>> most about any time I've discussed this with anyone):
>>
>> Has their been any progress on the creation of this layer?
>
> Absolutely.  I think at least some of my mail on the subject have been
> bouncing from the lists but the short version is at the end of July
> the existing "meta-openembedded" pieces were done in my tree and there
> was a list of stuff that needed fixing in migrating the oe-classic
> bits into the new meta-networking layer (the list I laid out in my
> initial email).  I was on vacation between then and Monday, so
> nothing's happened since then but this week I'm back looking at the
> best way to handle these older recipes that are in need of love in
> order to work with the current meta-oe and we should be good to go.  I
> think what's likely to happen is there will be some of them updated
> right away and others will be integrated and updated soon after.

Sounds good, thanks for the update. Is this repository-in-progress
available somewhere public yet?
-- 
Christopher Larson