[OE-core] Proposal: Creating meta-networking

[Koen Kooi]

Op 22 aug. 2012, om 21:22 heeft Chris Larson <kergoth at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> 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?

I'd very much welcome a patch creating an empty layer in meta-openembedded with just the README, layer.conf and COPYING.MIT