[OE-core] Qt in OE-core

[Otavio Salvador]

Hello,

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>wrote:

>
> 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.


Everyone using OE-Core/Poky in real world end using many GIT repositories
so I don't think it is a problem.

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