[oe] Yocto Project and OE - Where now?

[Otavio Salvador]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 05:21, Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk> wrote:
> On 17/01/2011 19:01, Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>> - where possible stick to one recipe per package. This reduces the
>> maintenance work and reduces the QA nightmare of lots of different
>> permutations.
>> I feel one recipe per package should be the common case for
>> applications, and preferably also for libs (although I am well aware
>> that especially in the latter case multiple versions cannot always be
>> avoided).
>
> OE is not a distro so this is a non starter already, please don't bog
> down this discussion by re-opening this again. Angstrom 2008, Angstrom
> 2010, kaelios and slugos are all released distributions with different
> versions of apps just as a starter and they arent even near the total
> number of distros in OE.

I disagree. I think having too many versions of a package just makes
difficult to get things done:

 - it increases the amount of maintainence work;
 - has a bigger time to get bugs spoted;

Users of old distros ought to use a specific repository and branch.
Master ought to be kept clean for 'next distro release'.

My 2c.

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