[OE-core] [PATCH v8 00/13] Revamp the Go support

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Bruce Ashfield
<bruce.ashfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 8:50 AM, Otavio Salvador <otavio at ossystems.com.br>
> wrote:
>>
>> This improves the Go support on OE-Core.
>>
>> We are trying to port as much as possible work done by Matt on
>> meta-golang back to OE-Core and also to avoid carrying old releases as
>> there is no need to support more versions of Go toolchain.
>>
>> This fixes issues in existing support as well as add support for SDK
>> generation which supports Go.
>
>
> Testing against what has merged, and what are in these series is showing
> that large
> parts of the go applications that are used in meta-virt no longer work. Was
> it the
> intention of the re-work to not be compatible with existing users of the
> language support ?
>
> Just curious, since I haven't seen this flagged in this context
> (compatibility), but now we
> have to fixup the layers before I branch to match the release .. and that
> was unexpected.

It does change things which can potentially break old recipes. That
said, it is straightforward to fix for most recipes as they end being
simpler.

I volunteer to help if there is the need.

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