meta-python2 at git.openembedded.org

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 3:51 PM Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 18:57 +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> > > May I create a meta-python2 repository at git.openembedded.org to
> > > be maintained by Tim Orling?
> >
> > I don't have strong objection, but I never heard why we need separate
> > git repos for small layers like this.
> >
> > Especially for some transition period it would be easier to review
> > the changes if they move just from meta-python to meta-python2 under
> > the existing meta-oe repository.
>
> Easier, yes but it won't give people the full impression that python2
> really is going away.
>
> > Hopefully more people will notice this move before they start asking
> > on ML where all their loved (but abandoned) python2 recipes
> > disappeared.
>
> That is partly intentional, I do think people need to notice.
>

we could just add messages to blacklist the recipes

> > Then it can be moved to some separate repository a bit later when
> > people already migrated from python2 and we're ready to also stop
> > building meta-python2 in Khem's world builds.
>
> I think we're too afraid of smaller layers with specific purposes and
> we should have more of them. I think it would allow us to empower more
> maintainers and spread the load to more people.
>

Practically, it makes life difficult, more layers sound good but
testing combinations become
a nightmare quickly, I don't think we need more layers, I have had a
lot of push back from
developers on this issue. End users do not care as much of the layers
as we think.

> Also just my opinion.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>
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