[OE-core] [PATCH] bitbake.conf/base.bbclass: Drop PRINC support

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 10:12 -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> > Won't this just silently make use of PRINC a no-op?  What about
>> > the users that had their head in the sand for the last few months
>> > but still expect PRINC to have some effect (and maybe don't use
>> > PR server)?  I would think escalating this to an error would make
>> > more sense (and follow other warnings that are now errors).
>>
>> I agree with Gary, move this to ERROR now and drop in 1.9.
>
> Its been printing warnings since May 2013. I tried to merge this 6
> months ago, I was told to wait another release, by you:
>
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2014-March/090169.html
>
> Now I need to keep the patch for another 6 months. This really is taking
> too long IMO. I may well get bored and just drop the patch (and forget
> any other ideas about trying to cleanup things).

I understand your frustration but I think we ought to be conservative
here. People tend to have old layers around and we risk to those never
get PRINC removed if we don't 'explicit' the error for those users.

I think we ought ERROR now and remove it in 1.9.

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