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

[Bruce Ashfield]

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 5:53 PM, Otavio Salvador <
otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:

> 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.
>

ok, cool. I just didn't notice this went it first went in (that doesn't
mean it wasn't stated .. just that I missed it :)


>
> I volunteer to help if there is the need.
>

Right now some of the fixes are in flight, if the fixes get stuck, I'll
make sure to ping.

Thanks,

Bruce


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