[OE-core] which fetch protocols are actually in any use these days?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012, Richard Purdie wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-12-12 at 14:42 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > while the bitbake fetcher code supports a number of protocols, which
> > ones are *actually* in serious use these days?  while the fetcher code
> > handles protocols like osc:// and p4://, is anyone actually using
> > those?
> >
> >  i'm writing a tutorial on fetching and i just don't want to spend any
> > time on protocols no one's going to care about.  thanks.
>
> Few care about those two, at least looking for the patches we receive to
> those fetchers. p4 may have some users, I suspect osc has none since I
> know why it was added and that it isn't used by that user group.
>
> Having said that I don't see a pressing need to remove them either as
> they still work, at least in theory.

  oh, i wasn't proposing removing them, i just wanted to know which
protocols i could safely ignore during class. :-)

rday

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