[oe] [PATCH 1/2] bitbake.conf, collections.inc: Add COLLECTIONS mechanism w/ a sane default.

[Chris Larson]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Holger Schurig
<hs4233 at mail.mn-solutions.de> wrote:
>> +# Take a list of directories in COLLECTIONS, in priority order (highest to
>> +# lowest), and use those to populate BBFILES, BBFILE_COLLECTIONS,
>> +# BBFILE_PATTERN_*, and BBFILE_PRIORITY_*.
>> +
>
> I like this idea, but I think that this *.inc file
> needs a larger comment block, e.g. not only stating
> what it does, but also why that would be handy. A
> typical use case or maybe a problem-solution section.
>
> I think when more of the *.inc and *.bbclass files get
> such in-file comments it'll be easier for people skimming
> throught the code to grasp the big picture.

Arguably, it could apply to everyone's use cases.  It's more
convenient to use than BBFILES even when you aren't relying on
bitbake's collections support to make it prefer the same recipe in one
collection over another, imo.
-- 
Chris Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
clarson at mvista dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Software Engineer
MontaVista Software, Inc.