[OE-core] does anything actually use BBVERSIONS?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2012, Chris Larson wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >   perusing bitbake user manual, came across section 2.1.20 which
> > mentions BBVERSIONS, but i don't see any current usage of it.  is
> > it still actively used anywhere?  the only places i see it are in
> > the documentation.
>
> I don't know of any uses of it. The original intent was to allow a
> single recipe to emit multiple versions of a recipe, like
> BBCLASSEXTEND, thereby consolidating the metadata for an upstream
> project in a single place rather than it being scattered across .inc
> files, but I don't think anyone has needed to use it or tried to use
> it for anything. I still think there's value, but less so now that
> we try to keep the number of supported versions of a thing to a
> minimum.

  ok, just thought i'd ask.  someone else is welcome to decide if it's
worth keeping around.

rday

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