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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

I second the drop of 5.4 ones. I also think we could move to the beta
recipes as soon as possible so we can iron out issues. People desiring
stable releases can use Fido instead as master is our way for 1.9.

> 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.
>
> 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 second the git use as well.

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