[OE-core] [oe] Style issue for recipes

[Robert Yang]

On 09/04/2014 10:12 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Quick question of style for the community to bikeshed on:  in the
> general case should recipes be split into foo_1.2.bb and foo.inc, or
> should they only split to bb/inc if there are multiple versions and
> generally there should just be foo_1.2.bb.

I think that put the constants in .inc is helpful for upgrading, for
example, the SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SECTION, inherit and so on,
they are unlikely to change when upgrade.

// Robert

>
> Specifically I'm looking at the libunwind patch for oe-core (moving
> from meta-oe) which adds libunwind_1.1.bb and libunwind.inc.
> Personally I feel that splitting them up complicates packaging and
> should only be done if there's actually multiple versions being used.
>
> Ross
>