[OE-core] RFC: removing buildhistory support for flat versioned package info

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 15:15 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One feature carried over from packagehistory.bbclass into buildhistory.bbclass 
> was the ability for it to optionally output PE:PV-PR named package info files 
> and then create a "latest" symlink to the latest one, which was useful in the 
> absence of the integration with git which buildhistory now has. This can 
> currently be enabled by setting BUILDHISTORY_KEEP_VERSIONS to 1.
> 
> I suspect not many people even know this feature exists let alone use it, and 
> looking at the code it could be simplified a bit by not supporting it at all. 
> Are there any objections to removing it?

Speaking as the author of that original code, I'm probably fine with
that, things have moved on...

Cheers,

Richard