[oe] [PATCH] preferred-xorg-versions: remove include files for old releases

[Martin Jansa]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 12:16:42PM +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:06 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > * git grep shows that all distributions (in OE tree) moved to
> > >  preferred-xorg-versions-X11R7.5.inc already
> > > * would be nice to encourage everybody to use most tested X11R7.5 or
> > >  no preferred-xorg-versions at all (we can keep latest versions working
> > >  and use D_P -1 for stuff which needs more testing first)
> > > * replace preferred-xorg-versions.inc with link always adjusted to
> > >  latest relase (is there any problem with symlink in OE tree?)
> > > * this would also make easier to remove really old versions when it's
> > >  hard to test some changes (like converting libx11 staging)
> 
> Rather than the symlink, how about adding:
> 
> PREFERRED_XORG_VERSION ?= "X11R7.5"
> 
> in some generic place, and encouraging distros to include
> preferred-xorg-versions-${PREFERRED_XORG_VERSION}.inc if they so desire?

Yes this looks like better solution. Thanks

> I don't have much of a view on deleting the old include files.  On the
> one hand it seems a bit of a shame to remove them, since they aren't
> doing any harm (and, being .incs, aren't even adding to parse time).
> But I don't use them myself and I find it hard to get very excited about
> the issue.

I don't use them too, so the most important points are

* encourage everybody to use most tested X11R7.5
* easier remove recipes of really old versions or "not latest minor"

Regards,
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Martin 'JaMa' Jansa     jabber: Martin.Jansa at gmail.com