[OE-core] worth adding a "git"-versioned of i2c-tools to oe-core?

[Alexander Kanavin]

On 07/31/2017 01:41 PM, rpjday at crashcourse.ca wrote:
> 
>    given that some significant changes have been made to i2c-tools since
> version 3.1.2, is it worth adding a git-versioned recipe of that to 
> oe-core,
> and using DEFAULT_PREFERENCE to force people to select it if they want it?
> in particular, the code base has been restructured, and a new utility,
> "i2ctransfer", has been added.

It's better to ask the upstream to make a new release.

We've had dual git/release recipes in the past, and they were all an 
utter failure. In the sense, that only one version of the recipe was 
maintained, and the other was completely neglected.

Alex