[OE-core] Request to move "gitpkgv.bbclass" from meta-oe to oe-core

[Mike Looijmans]

On 10/10/2014 12:15 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Richard Purdie
> <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 10:16 +0200, Mike Looijmans wrote:
>>> In partial reply to my own question, this has been discussed 2 years ago, but
>>> apparently nothing ever came out of it.
>>>
>>> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2012-February/056050.html
>>>
>>> So once more the request to be able to get sane version strings for git repos.
>>> Can we please just move gitpkgv. That's like five minutes work, and if anyone
>>> (e.g. me) feels like building something better, he or she is free do submit
>>> that and get rid of the gitpkgv class once it's obsolete.
>>
>> I do feel quite strongly that this is something which should get
>> improved in the fetcher itself. That is why I've pushed back on the
>> patch since if I take it into OE-Core, there is even less incentive to
>> fix the real problem...
>
> Mike I am also an user of gitpkgv but I must to agree with Richard
> here. Moving this to OE-Core will just make it worse. It is way better
> to prepare a patch and add support for it on the fetcher code of
> BitBake.

Give me some pointers on what you're talking about here, and I'll be happy to 
try and implement it. Currently I have no idea as to what is "wrong" with the 
gitpkgv approach, and I also have no clue as to what it is you want to have 
implemented in the git fetcher.

Kind regards,
Mike.



Met vriendelijke groet / kind regards,

Mike Looijmans

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