[oe] OEDEM - Summary of some the outcome

[Phil Blundell]

On Mon, 2009-11-09 at 10:36 +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> The proposals were:
> 
> a) Adopt the removal of the layout_* variables from Poky.
> b) Change the do_populate_staging/do_stage functions to use the results 
>    from the do_install step as proposed in other emails
> c) Adopt the native.bbclass changes from Poky to allow use of 
>    BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
> d) Start removing legacy do_stage functions and convert exclusively to 
>    the new model
> e) Start converting recipes to BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
> f) Merge the new canadian SDK classes from Poky and start a gradual 
>    conversion to them with a view to obsoleting the existing sdk and 
>    canadian recipes.
> g) Rename "do_populate_staging" to "do_populate_sysroot" and 
>    "TMPDIR/staging" to "TMPDIR/sysroots" to reflect how much this 
>    directory has changed and to truly reflect its contents. The word 
>    "staging" confuses a lot of new users in my experience.

I think there was one more:

h) Enable packaged staging as default, with a view to making it
mandatory after a suitable transition period.

p.