[oe] [OE-core] State of libcs in OE-Core glibc/uclibc/musl

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Roman Khimov <roman at khimov.ru> wrote:
> В письме от 29 октября 2015 08:42:31 пользователь Khem Raj написал:
>> 1. Drop kconfig support in glibc and we become inline with upstream
>
> No opinion on this.
>
>> 2. Move musl support to OE-Core from meta-musl
>
> I would certainly support this kind of for musl.
>
>> 3. Drop uclibc or leave it in current broken state, I would like to pull it
>> out into a layer in meta-openembedded and we can leave the core plumbing as
>> it is in OE-Core
>
> But I don't think that moving uClibc out of OE Core is OK with the next
> release. We do use it and there are probably some users too, I think it's
> better to have a longer transition period for this kind of change, like make
> the next release support three libcs and only move uClibc to meta-oe in a
> subsequent release. This would give everyone some time to evaluate
> alternatives rather than forcing to make choices right at the OE Core update
> when usually there are lots of other things that need to be fixed.

may be not a bad idea however, this still will be available as an
independent layer on meta-openembedded
but we could still keep it for a release

>
>> 4. Poky-tiny switches to use musl
>
> No opinion on this.
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