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

[Marko Lindqvist]

On 29 May 2013 13:14, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

 0.30.0 NEWS states that "dropped support for gtk2". While this sounds like
upstream 0.28.2 would work with either gtk2 or gtk3, OE recipe depends on
"gtk+", which is always gtk2?


> > 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?
>

 I think calling it vte3 would be confusing at best, when vte itself is not
version 3.x. How about "vte-gtk3"?


 - ML
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