[OE-core] proposal to move cogl, clutter and related recipes from oe-core to dedicated meta-clutter layer

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Tomas Frydrych
<tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 15/05/13 15:09, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> Can you not just get the appropriate changes into the BSP layers
>> so that when you add the BSP on top of OE-Core it does just work "out of the
>> box"?
>
> What you are really saying is that the onus of maintaining working
> clutter packages should be on the BSP maintainers. I have already
> explained previously in this thread why I don't think this is going to
> work out in practice, so I am not going to repeat myself again.
>
>
>> If clutter is taken out of OE-Core this becomes even harder because then
>> BSPs can no longer bbappend clutter or cogl (if that is indeed what is
>> required in order to enable machine-specific functionality) without fiddling
>> around with BBMASK or keeping the appends in yet another separate layer so
>> they don't impact other BSP users who aren't building Clutter.
>
> The BSPs would not need to do anything regarding clutter, no bbappends,
> meta-clutter would be self-contained in this regard.
>
> I don't think there is any point in bothering the list with this
> discussion any further, we have gone around the circle more than once.
> The whole point of the proposal was to make maintaining, using and
> supporting the clutter packages easier for everyone, but it seems I
> underestimated how important Clutter is to oe-core, and I am already
> looking forward to this newly discovered importance being translated
> into user happiness before too long. :)

I'd prefer we keep meta-clutter working until it happens ;-)

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