[OE-core] Qt in OE-core

[Koen Kooi]

Op 9 jan. 2014, om 01:32 heeft Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:

> On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 11:21:08PM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>>> In my opinion...
>>> 
>>> Personally I would be in favour of removing GTK+ and the GNOME UI from
>>> the core and putting them in their own layer for all the same reasons I
>>> think Qt should be in its own layer:
>>> - a "basic" image doesn't need them
>>> - we can have different layers to track separate major releases (as with
>>> qt3, qt4, and qt5)
>> 
>> The trouble is, if you have no toolkit at all, how do you test that X still 
>> works properly? The selection we have provides a single unit allowing us to 
>> test the entire stack reasonably well without having to add anything else. I 
>> think that's a valuable thing to have.
> 
> By testing oe-core + layer with X.
> 
> Everybody else is using oe-core + couple of other layers, why do we need
> to make oe-core testable with X _in single_ layer?

I have never seen a good explanation for that

> I'm not saying that oe-core should be tested with 30 layers like my
> world build, but why cannot AB have special build which builds
> 
> oe-core + meta-xorg + meta-gnome
> 
> and runs some runtime QA tests on that and then some other build with
> 
> oe-core + meta-python
> 
> for piglit tests?

And e.g. meta-xorg could live inside the oe-core git repo if additional git repos are too scary.