From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from vms173011pub.verizon.net (vms173011pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE59E014DB for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:54:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gandalf.denix.org ([unknown] [108.45.150.102]) by vms173011.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.02 32bit (built Apr 16 2009)) with ESMTPA id <0ML500JJ6RB26KW8@vms173011.mailsrvcs.net> for poky@yoctoproject.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:54:38 -0500 (CDT) Received: by gandalf.denix.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 28992201AD; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:54:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 15:54:37 -0400 From: Denys Dmytriyenko To: Martin Jansa Message-id: <20130412195437.GB3757@denix.org> References: <20130412193116.GA3757@denix.org> <20130412194229.GU2477@jama> MIME-version: 1.0 In-reply-to: <20130412194229.GU2477@jama> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org Subject: Re: poky and OpenEmbedded (post-release) X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion & patch submission for meta-yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 19:54:52 -0000 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:42:29PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:31:16PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote: > > > Many thanks to Denys for pointing me to > > > http://openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core. You won't believe how > > > I've poured over that page and how many "lights have gone on" while > > > reading it (over and over). > > > > > > If poky started as a fork of OE but is now a distribution, wouldn't it > > > make sense to remove the "meta" directory from poky and simply have > > > people add openembedded-core as a layer (as they would any other > > > layer)? > > > > I believe that was suggested few times before (and other distros are doing > > exactly that - i.e. assembling their distros from layers), but Poky developers > > prefer their distro to be already pre-assembled for ease of use. Besides > > openembedded-core layer, there're also bitbake and meta-yocto inside Poky. It > > maybe confusing at first, but think of it as being pre-assembled from bitbake+ > > oe-core + meta-yocto and saved into a single repository. > > > > Well, at least it saves Poky from needing to provide setup tools to download > > and assemble different layers from different repositories. Otherwise you would > > need something like our oe-layersetup[1] tool for Arago or setup-scripts for > > Angstrom etc. > > But on the other hand they wouldn't need to send slightly different > (path prefix) patchsets for poky and for oe-core/bitbake/meta-yocto. Yes, indeed! So, a slightly easier user experience for the price of a slight maintenance overhead. :) -- Denys > > [1] git://arago-project.org/git/projects/oe-layersetup.git > > > > -- > > Denys > > > > > Or am I going down the wrong path with this thought? > > > > > > Of course it might be confusing having, potentially, both an > > > openembedded-core and a meta-openembedded layer, but it seems like > > > having the "meta" directory in poky is redundant, given that it is > > > already its own layer in openembedded-core. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > poky mailing list > > poky@yoctoproject.org > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/poky > > -- > Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: Martin.Jansa@gmail.com