[OE-core] [PATCH v2] scripts: add new script 'native'

[Paul Eggleton]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 16:44:01 Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Jérémy Rosen <jeremy.rosen at smile.fr> 
wrote:
> >> "native" might be a bit too generic...
> >> 
> >> could I suggest oe_native-run or bitbake-native ?
> >> 
> >> something that says it's yocto-galaxy specific and can be autocompleted
> >> with a reasonable prefix...
> > 
> > I think overly namespacing things that aren't likely to clash in
> > practice gets annoying. I would've gone for "run-native" (more
> > descriptive and English-like, less generic), but how about something
> > simple and easy to type like "oe-native" or "oe-run-native" if a
> > prefix is added? That's consistent with the naming scheme used for
> > many other scripts in scripts/ too.
> 
> I just noticed that the script's already in though, so not much point
> arguing. ;)

There is - just because it got merged doesn't mean it can't be renamed, in 
fact if we are going to rename it then now is the time to do that, rather than 
waiting until people are used to the current name.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre