[OE-core] [RFC PATCH 0/7] Developer workflow improvements

[Trevor Woerner]

Hi Paul,

These tools are really nice! Some thoughts/comments:

Maybe the "devtool.conf" that gets created could be placed in the
"conf/" subdirectory (along with the other configuration files such as
local.conf and bblayers.conf)?

Perhaps any recipe you're working on could be automatically included via
an IMAGE_INSTALL_append in conf/local.conf (or maybe that's too intrusive?)?

Do you envision users creating multiple workspaces? I'm wondering why
"devtool create-workspace" is required. Is there any advantage to
requiring users to create the workspace explicitly instead of just
having it be created implicitly?

Some of the commands to "devtool" include things like
    - extract
    - build
    - deploy
    - undeploy
but when a workspace is created, devtool (very intelligently) adds the
workspace to the set of BBLAYERS. So one could then just use bitbake to
build the recipe. Are there any advantages to using "devtool build
<recipe>" instead of "bitbake <recipe>"?

Best regards,
    Trevor