[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] RFC: Add recipe of gtk3 version of vte alongside gtk2 one.

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Wed May 29 10:14:03 UTC 2013


On 26 May 2013 15:03, Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Last gtk2-compatible version of vte is 0.28.2 currently present on OE core.
> Later versions depend on gtk3.

vte supports both gtk2 and gtk3.

> Since gtk3 exist in OE core, it would make
> sense to be able to build version of vte (and other similar packages)
> that does not depend on gtk2. Otherwise we end with systems that must
> contain both gtk2 (to be used by some programs) and gtk3 (to be used by
> other programs).
> This patch just adds new recipe for latest vte version, 0.34.5, alongside
> with 0.28.2 version.
> How should priorities be set? "1" for gtk2-version, so it gets selected despite gtk3-version being newer?

Because they are *not* drop-in replacements, how about naming the gtk3
vte vte3_3.34.5.bb?

Ross



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