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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Marko Lindqvist <cazfi74 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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"?
>

So I would say to rename vte to vte-gtk2 at same time and make it provide
vte for now.

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