[OE-core] [RFC][PATCH] vte: bring back old version to support xfce4-terminal

[Mark Asselstine]

On June 16, 2016 18:10:09 Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > On 16 June 2016 at 21:49, Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine at windriver.com>
> > 
> > wrote:
> >> While waiting to hear back about my inquiry I did take some
> >> time to put together this patch that allows things that
> >> require the older vte to continue to build. Since xfce4-terminal
> >> lives in meta-openembedded this might make more sense to carry
> >> over there. I am sure folks will have an opinion so sending this
> >> out as an RFC.
> > 
> > That's certainly a good argument for putting the old vte in meta-oe.
> 
> The meta-oe layers generally have a higher priority than oe-core, so
> having an older version in meta-oe and a newer version in oe-core can
> lead to unexpected results.

This should not be an issue. My change has the old recipe renamed with the API 
version so the old version becomes referenced by 'vte-0.0' (per the commit log 
the 0.0 is consistent with the API versioning upstream). So recipes which 
require the old version, like xfce4-terminal, have to have their DEPENDS 
adjusted accordingly. There should be no surprises.

I will have a closer look today to ensure nothing in oe-core is requiring the 
old version and if not I will prepare a patch for meta-oe since that seems to 
be the general agreement for a home for this. I need to do some further checks 
and runtime tests but I will get this out shortly. In the meantime anyone else 
running in to the build failure can exploit the RFC patch.

Mark

> 
> > Ross
> > 
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