[oe] [OE-core] any value in keeping the backward compat "task-core" stuff?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Monday 14 July 2014 07:39:23 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > On Friday 11 July 2014 20:39:04 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> > > 
> > > <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > > >   a number of the current packagegroup recipe files still have
> > > > 
> > > > backward compatibility support for the old "task-core" names, seems
> > > > like that's been there for well over a year, would it be safe to
> > > > finally just toss that? seems like everyone's had enough time to make
> > > > the move to the new names, and it would be clearer to not confuse the
> > > > proper use of the word "task" these days.
> > > 
> > > I agree; however this question should also be send to oe-core mailing
> > > list (added in Cc)
> > 
> > I agree as well; these should go. I know there are some who want to
> > keep these indefinitely for upgrade purposes, but I think there's a
> > limit to how long they should stay around in OE-Core. They can
> > always be preserved in bbappends for those that do want to keep
> > them.
> 
>   one more (general) question about this ... there's a fair bit of
> this task/packagegroup backward compatibility stuff under the meta-oe
> layer as well. i assume that patches to the meta-oe layer should still
> be posted to this list, but have a subject line of:
> 
>   [meta-oe][PATCH] ...
> 
> correct? as in, two separate patches.

To be clear (since we're cross-posted to two lists in this thread) OE-Core 
patches go to the openembedded-core list, meta-oe patches to the openembedded-
devel list.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre