[OE-core] [PATCH 0/3] Package Updates

[Radu Moisan]

On 05/28/2012 01:55 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First, sorry for the thread breaking, I've just joined this list and I
> didn't get this mail.
>
> Koen Kooi wrote:
>>>   dbus: Update to version 1.5.12
>> First: how was this tested?
the only testing I've done so far is to ensure it build and then check 
the version with dbus-daemon --version
>> Second: From the dbus website:
>>
>>         The current stable branch is D-Bus 1.4.x. This is the recommended
>> version for most purposes.
>>         The current development branch is D-Bus 1.5.x, which will lead to a
>> 1.6.x stable branch in future.
>>
>> Why are you deleting the stable branch based recipe and add one from
>> the development branch?
> The definition of stable and unstable in DBus isn't as hard and fast
> as you'd really like -- the 1.5.x cycle is very slow and mostly stable
> from a crashy point of view.
>
> I'd say there is a good rationale for having both 1.4.x (.20, so that
> also needs an upgrade) and 1.5.x in oe-core.  The default should be
> 1.4 for obvious reasons (it's the stable release), and 1.5 should be
> there for people who need the improvements.  In particular there has
> been a lot of work on performance, so anyone heavily using dbus (i.e.
> anything using Telepathy, which is where the improvements came from)
> should look at 1.5 because it will give a noticeable improvement on
> slower hardware.
>
> Ross
I suppose, then, I should add another recipe and support both. However, 
can someone point out how can I make one of them default.
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