[oe] [oe-commits] org.oe.dev gnuplot: update 4.2.2, add 4.3.0+cvs

[Paul Sokolovsky]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:34:59 +0100
Koen Kooi <k.kooi at student.utwente.nl> wrote:

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> Michael 'Mickey' Lauer schreef:
> | On Monday 28 January 2008 16:40:22 Graeme Gregory wrote:
> |> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:48:21 +0200
> |>
> |> Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml at gmail.com> wrote:
> |>> Hm, but why that file is in .dev branch at all? What was idea of
> |>> removing 2007 .conf and leaving preferred-versions? Doing a grep,
> it |>> is referenced only by angstrom-2007-for-openmoko.inc, so
> shouldn't it |>> be merged there or renamed to make it clear that it
> relates more to |>> openmoko?
> |> I shall rename it later when I get a chance to indicate only
> OpenMoko |> use it.
> |
> | How about making it generic-preferred-versions.inc hence
> resurrecting | the "generic" distribution until we have the default
> versions configured | enough, so that you can build without setting a
> DISTRO?
> 
> You can't build without setting a distro since among other things,
> SRCREV is broken if you do that.
> Besides not being named 'generic', what are the arguments against
> making angstrom the 'generic' distro in OE? It's the closest thing of
> showing off all features of OE *and* doing it the OE-way.

IMHO, we shouldn't ditch "generic" distro. It's purpose should be to
enforce as little policy as possible. Thus, it will be good base for
adhoc, overlay, foreign, experiment distros. For example, openwrt-sdk
distro already uses generic-uclibc (which in turn uses generic) in such
way.

> 
> regards,
> 
> Koen
> 

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