[oe] [RFC] delete old monotone recipes

Tom Rini tom_rini at mentor.com
Thu Sep 30 21:31:24 UTC 2010


Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As it stands we have 6 monotone recipes:
> 
> monotone-5_0.25.2.bb
> monotone-6_0.27.bb
> monotone-6_0.31.bb
> monotone-6_0.33.bb
> monotone-6_0.34.bb
> monotone-6_0.37.bb
> 
> There are all target-only recipes
> 
> I can imagine it made sense to have a monotone recipe for the target
> when our sources were still in monotone, but I feel that nowadays it
> is less useful
> (apart from the question whether it is useful to have an SCM on an
> embedded system).
> 
> Therefore I would like to bring up the following discussion topics:
> 
> Is there any use to keep the old monotone-6 recipes? (all but 0.37).
> Or should we remove?
> 
> And what about the monotone-5 recipe. Is that still useful?
> 
> And what about the latest monotone-6 recipe? Is that still useful to keep?
> 
> Your opinion is appreciated.

As an aside, I can't find anything called monotone-5 or monotone-6, just 
monotone.  But I'd otherwise suggest the normal rules apply, delete the 
unpinned versions assuming they're all GPLv2.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation





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