[oe] Native/Cross/SDK rethink (Was: Re: RFC: "Virtual" native and sdk recipes)

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:14:26AM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
[snip]
> So I propose we allow the canadian stuff to merge on the understanding
> that its doing things the wrong way and that we will most likely change
> to the "right" way in due course even if its less intuitive. That change
> may well break things but we're saying now this will happen and that
> people shouldn't be surprised.
> 
> Is that reasonable?
> 
> As for the mechanics of merging the branch, I'd like this to go in
> stages and will follow up with further email/discussion on that subject.
> I'm under time pressures at the moment so this won't be until later this
> week though. Sorry for the delay :(.

Agreed and I didn't intend the current branch for merging, just review.

> Also, people keep talking about building sdks for more than one machine
> with one bitbake command and other similar things. This is a really
> tricky idea and needs a lot of careful thought so as not to pull down
> the whole architecture. It is not a trivial issue.

Yes, we need to have some sort of discussion about what's reasonable and
what's a best design for making SDKs come out of OE.

-- 
Tom Rini