[oe] RFC: drop quilt version 0.39

[Paul Sokolovsky]

Hello Koen,

Thursday, December 20, 2007, 10:24:27 AM, you wrote:

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> Rolf Leggewie schreef:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> driven by bug 1960, I have been doing some work on quilt in OE,
>> refactoring, cleaning up and adding version 0.46.  In the process I also
>> dropped version version 0.39.  Is there anybody that needs this
>> particular version or can I commit to drop it?  I grepped through OE and
>> found no reference to it.  If you want it kept, speak up now.

> What are your good reasons to drop it? I see no point in removing stuff
> just to boost someones commit stats under the moniker "clean up"

  I would like to second this (following my always-conservative
attitude to dropping stuff (without good reason) on which someone
worked hard previously (and someone can in the future)).

  To elaborate, I hope that we'll revamp OE support for using external
toolchains for building single packages, because it seems that people
have got a stereotype that OE is for building entire system from
scratch (at that would be too limiting - why I'd use top-notch
solution to build a whole distro while revert to using adhoc tools to
build packages for 3rd-party systems?)

  For example, I just pushed openwrt-sdk distro config, which allows
to build packages against OpenWRT SDK. Due to OpenWRT dependencies, it
may be required to build older than the latest versions of some
packages.



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