[OE-core] [RFC] remove neon from oe-core

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Ross,

On Tuesday 09 June 2015 20:14:15 Burton, Ross wrote:
> Since Subversion moved away from neon it appears the only user of it in
> oe-core is GStreamer as a HTTP client plugin.  By virtue of being
> maintained I suspect the libsoup plugin is generally the better choice
> there, so as neon is now unmaintained upstream (last release September
> 2014, doesn't work with latest GnuTLS release) I propose moving it to
> meta-oe.
> 
> Any comments?

I have to be honest and say I don't like meta-oe continuing to be a dumping 
ground for old things that only a few (or no) people are using - if we must 
keep these recipes around, I'd rather they go into a different layer even if 
that layer's only grouping factor is "legacy items", at least then they are 
labelled appropriately. GStreamer 0.10 and BlueZ 4 were recent examples, 
perhaps I should have spoken up earlier, although I don't necessarily think 
it's too late.

Martin - what do you think?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre