[oe] inc file discussion

[Chris Larson]

On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Frans Meulenbroeks <
fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:

> This gave me the following dilemma:
> 1 add in the recipe with _append  or +=
>

Side note to lurkers: _append and _prepend should be avoided in favor of the
immediate operations (+=, .=, =., =+) unless you're doing a conditional
operation with overrides.


> 2 add to the inc and test the other version(s)
> 3 add to the inc and not test the other version(s) and assume things
> work properly.
> 4 not do the patch.
> 5. remove the old recipe
>
> I expect a lot of people would go for 3, but that *could* introduce a
> problem.
>
> BTW maybe it is indeed time for BBVERSIONS or whatever it was called.
>

BBVERSIONS is supported by 1.10, so it can be used as soon as we bump OE's
minimum bitbake version, if we choose to.
-- 
Christopher Larson
clarson at kergoth dot com
Founder - BitBake, OpenEmbedded, OpenZaurus
Maintainer - Tslib
Senior Software Engineer, Mentor Graphics