<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 30, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Burton, Ross <<a href="mailto:ross.burton@intel.com" class="">ross.burton@intel.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 October 2016 at 17:35, Robert P. J. Day <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rpjday@crashcourse.ca" target="_blank" class="">rpjday@crashcourse.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":p7" class="a3s aXjCH m15816aec4d9c0267"> fair enough ... i'm embarrassed to admit i didn't really understand<br class="">
the versioning selection so i'm going to examine it way more carefully<br class="">
now. i wonder how many recipes in oe-core are "_git" recipes that, in<br class="">
the end, just lock down to a specific version. as you say, i was a bit<br class="">
surprised.</div></blockquote></div><br class="">Personally I've been endorsing the practise where _<a href="http://git.bb/" class="">git.bb</a> is only used for recipes that are actually tracking git development branches, and if it's just a release that it simply fetched over git via a SHA of a release tag then the recipe should be _<a href="http://1.2.3.bb/" class="">1.2.3.bb</a> for clarity.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>with a system integrators hat on I agree. With developer hat on I do not.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">Ross</div></div>
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