From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [209.85.219.209] (helo=mail-ew0-f209.google.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N8Aoy-00023x-UP for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:53:08 +0100 Received: by ewy5 with SMTP id 5so925316ewy.12 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:51:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Emm0/ZDz3HLcgYlGpPN9fseuskhc7uA9C6V84Nz52Rc=; b=loF2k0CrfAvfbT7XA77qP7FrQj/nI7OFg9VVI1ozWk8poommmPb9b7CpRHKicriwk/ LqJvQMgzmjr0/92LkCsmIDTz6tO6n6JDhgcnE6/neMwjGhOe0toT0T3HGJMlebAKs3PF 9YgN5TtF/GeGIgPU15v8BvGYbiR9FfTAnmh/U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=g+gP4ho8uWExGYBY+/lz/+U5AtSBOfAlpM346oT6IU/GQvsAjiElET6ynAhMn0AzPP +gX96ovbzgm2wh90i31vU+BPTtkfAvmEgCgoKgjI+i6Jm+v8gHaCnFtduHUghVMgXinH osOxCTrkenoNDOri9JJwmmqrWU3bPnCN+dDGg= Received: by 10.213.0.218 with SMTP id 26mr1456954ebc.85.1257934774063; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:19:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from is.home (93-81-70-123.broadband.corbina.ru [93.81.70.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3743944eyg.17.2009.11.11.02.19.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:19:32 -0800 (PST) From: Yuri Bushmelev To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:19:16 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.30-std-def-alt14; KDE/4.3.2; i686; ; ) References: <1257867936.1484.281.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> In-Reply-To: <1257867936.1484.281.camel@mill.internal.reciva.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200911111319.16947.jay4mail@gmail.com> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 209.85.219.209 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jay4mail@gmail.com X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on linuxtogo.org); Unknown failure Subject: Re: OEDEM 2009 summary: Future plans for stable branch(es) X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:53:08 -0000 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello! > - RP: important not to let backwards compatibility stand in the way of > progress; development tree needs to move forwards. There will come a > point where old stuff cannot be sensibly maintained and must be deleted: > e.g. old gcc versions do not support sysroot which is needed for staging > nowadays. > > - Phil B: agreed, but would prefer to keep old versions working as long > as there is little/no cost in doing so. > > - KG: lots of old cruft in tree makes it hard for new users to find > examples of best current practice. > > - Phil B: can we move the cruft out of sight rather than deleting it? > Punt this to discussion on splitting the tree. I just want to remind about tagging possibility of git :) We can (and imho definitely must) tag revisions before dropping any of such things. -- Yuri Bushmelev