[oe] [Bitbake-dev] A new bitbake extension: .bbappend files

[Esben Haabendal]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Frans Meulenbroeks
<fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like a fine idea to me (although I must say I was unaware of the amend
> class, so I cannot really compare).
>
> An alternative I was thinking of was to have a mechanism in an overlayed
> recipe that would allow you to include whatever version was in a lower
> priority overlay, but your prososal looks also quite sound.

I have been thinking of this approach several times also.
Something like

overlay_require pointercal_0.0.bb

But I like the bbappend approach also, so

+1

from me also.  Simple is good :-)

/Esben