[oe] [meta-qt5] Dropping tarball recipes from meta-qt5

[Andreas Müller]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm still working on finishing 5.5-beta1 recipes for qt5, I'm getting
> tired of maintaining 2 sets of patches and 2 versions of recipes in the
> same layer branch.
>
> 1) Would people mind dropping 5.4 support in master branch (who wants to
> use 5.4 can continue to use "fido" branch of meta-qt5, there are patches
> for 5.4.2 git recipes as well).
>
As soon as 5.5 is out I have no problem.

> 2) Would people mind having only git recipes? It will be easier to
> update them. Only disadvantages I can think of are the need to clone
> from git and not being aligned with exact release for long time (git
> recipes usually track newer revisions in e.g. 5.4 branch than 5.4.0 or
> 5.4.1 tarbal recipes.
Advantage for me would be that recipe-wise changing versions for test
is easier - so no I appreciate.
>
> If we all use the same version from the same recipes then we can test it
> better and it will be much easier to maintain.
>
I think it's time to mention: Thanks for maintaining qt5 and other
layers - you do an excellent job!

Andreas