[OE-core] Package recipes change proposal (system-wide) - name wise

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wednesday 25 July 2012 07:23:31 Iorga, Cristian wrote:
> For me, having the version number contained in the name of package recipe is
> a little bit puzzling. For example: libpcre/libpcre_8.31.bb
> 
> Is there a solid technical reason to not have it like this?
> 
> libpcre/libpcre.bb
> and inside the recipe to have a PV variable defined:
> PV="8.31"

The benefit of having PV in the recipe file name is that you can then easily 
have different recipes for different versions of the same piece of software, 
which is particularly useful when those different versions may need to be built 
slightly differently.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre