[OE-core] Releases of BitBake to package for Fedora?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 8:16:06 AM NZDT Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 6, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
> > The bitbake API isn't really stable and has a reasonable amount of change,
> > so if you were to package it then there's a good chance it would be out of
> > date within six months and people who wanted to use the latest oe-core
> > release against the packaged bitbake would hit API version errors.  The
> > recommended usage is to bundle in some way bitbake and the metadata
> > (combo-layer, submodules, repo, whatever).
> >
> > As such there are no tarballs.  There are branches for each version and
> > commits where the version is bumped, if you're really determined to
> > package a snapshot.
> 
> If there's no realistic hope of (or need for) using bitbake standalone
> then maybe it's time to move bitbake into oe-core?

Well, there are folks out there using bitbake with their own (non-OE) 
metadata, and that is absolutely supported, so even in the absence of stable 
releases of BitBake that distros could pick up the separation does still have 
a purpose.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre