[OE-core] [RFC] Remove vala from oe-core

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday 10 November 2015 17:06:14 Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 04:50 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > When considering whether something belongs in OE-Core, typically we apply
> > the following criteria (not that this is really formalised, but based on
> > our history):
> > 
> > 1) Is it something that a reasonable majority of people need in an
> > embedded context?
> 
> I should clarify: there might be Vala software out there that someone
> would want to run in an embedded context. And that software might
> require Vala bindings for libraries that are in oe-core. If we don't
> provide those bindings, then either the layer that adds vala recipe also
> has to patch all of our oe-core recipes, 

That's what we have PACKAGECONFIG for.

> or (worse!) the person who
> needs something vala-based also has to ad-hoc-patch the dependency
> recipes of that.

There shouldn't be any patching needed at all. If we were to remove this from 
OE-Core, it still does not preclude us having the appropriate PACKAGECONFIG 
options to enable it.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre