[oe] `PR = "r0"`: Add or not to add?

[Ahsan, Noor]

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> [mailto:openembedded-devel-bounces at lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf
Of
> Frans Meulenbroeks
> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 3:07 PM
> To: openembedded-devel at lists.openembedded.org
> Subject: Re: [oe] `PR = "r0"`: Add or not to add?
> 
> 2011/9/1 Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>
> 
> > On 08/31/2011 06:43 AM, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:30, Koen
> Kooi<koen at dominion.thruhere.**net<koen at dominion.thruhere.net>>
> >>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> Besides, this is also on the policy
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> The OE classic policy maybe, not on the meta-oe policy[1].
> >>>
> >>
> >> ETOOMANYPOLICIES
> >>
> >>  so or you change the policy or you follow it. Otherwise makes no
> sense to
> >>>> have a policy if the person who merge the patches do not follow
> it.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> - From
>
http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Category:Policy<http://wiki.op
> enembedded.org/index.php/Category:Policy>I read:
> >>>
> >>> http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Commit_Patch_**
> >>>
>
Message_Guidelines<http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Commit_Patch_
> Message_Guidelines>
> >>>
>
http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Commit_Policy<http://wiki.open
> embedded.org/index.php/Commit_Policy>
> >>>
>
http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Commit_log_example<http://wiki
> .openembedded.org/index.php/Commit_log_example>
> >>>
>
http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Styleguide<http://wiki.openemb
> edded.org/index.php/Styleguide>
> >>>
>
http://wiki.openembedded.org/**index.php/Versioning_Policy<http://wiki.
> openembedded.org/index.php/Versioning_Policy>
> >>>
> >>> And none of those say PR = r0 is wanted behaviour. OTOH it doesn't
> say
> >>> it's
> >>> unwanted either.
> >>>
> >>
> >> So until it is explicit we might keep PR = r0 as it seems most
> people
> >> prefer this way.
> >>
> >
> > As long as we are all chiming in, I would like to see all of us
> decide once
> > and for all what to do.
> >
> > I also prefer the explicitly setting PR = "r0". Can we work out the
> > troublesome cases and see if we can get them fixed? Also, what is
the
> > oe-core view on this?
> >
> > Let's work out what the technical answer is and go from there
> 
> 
> Good plan.
> 
> BTW not sure if it is feasible but ideally a 2nd assingment to a var
> should
> give an error (or at least a warning). This avoids that e.g. a recipe
> and a
> .inc file set the var (or that a var is set twice within the same
> recipe, in
> the past I have seen this). If a variable is intended to be
reassigned,
> weak
> binding should be used. ( ?= or so).
> 
> Frans
Hi,

I did not see any thread on oe-core mailing list about this. Did we
start this thread there?

Noor

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