[oe] Yocto Project and OE - Where now?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/1/19 Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk>:

>> I wholehearthy agree with the proposal that it is left to the package
>> maintainers discretion.
>> Wrt the GPLv2+ version. I suggest to reflect this in the name.
>> E.g. you could have samba and samba-gplv2 (or perhaps samba-gplv2 and
>> samba-gplv3). Then it immediately becomes obvious why there are two
>> versions.
>> Similarly with versions that became a lot fatter over time (which imho
>> is a good reason to keep the old version).
> I am totally against this idea, it just makes a total mess of the
> namespace. We have the ability to put comments in bitbake files use it.

I don't think there are that many recipes for which this is relevant,
so the namespace clutter is limited.
Comments in bb files may work equally well. Problem is that those
comments are not written in the files.

E.g. you mentioned you wanted to keep an older abiword version because
it is much smaller. Fine, but I have no idea which of the 5 versions
you want to keep.
(btw, talking about namespace clutter: there is also
abiword-embedded_2.6.8.bb) and 2.8 recipes including a 2.5 inc seems
also an issue that might be worthwile fixing)

Wrt the message of Martin: I did a quick peek,
include/angstrom-2008-preferred-versions.inc pins about 60 recipes
(actually a litlte bit less if you count libtool libtool-native
libtool-cross libtool-sdk etc as one). Most of them are for libs. This
also seems to hold for other distro's.

Frans