[oe] getting bitbake-1.8.12 for the org.openembedded.dev branch?
Graeme Gregory
dp at xora.org.uk
Sat Jul 25 13:42:37 UTC 2009
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>
>
>> On Saturday 25 July 2009 14:15:08 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>
>>> would it not make more sense to have even the "dev" branch come
>>> with the required version of bitbake embedded in the checkout?
>>> or, failing that, just toss that incomplete bitbake directory
>>> entirely?
>>>
>> If you look into this directory it will only contain *.pyc files and
>> I don't think it makes any sense to put bitbake into the
>> OpenEmbedded repository.
>>
>
> in a sense, i agree with that. the problem is that the precedent
> has already been set by having bitbake in the stable/2009 branch and,
> based on the principle of least surprise, you shouldn't suddenly yank
> something out of a branch if developers are used to seeing it there.
>
>
Your standing on your head. Bitbake wasnt yanked out of anything. It was
added to the stable branch in good engineering fashion as thats the
version stable/2009 will always build with. Development moves with
bitbake so it makes no sense to put it in.
Graeme
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