[RFC] delete old monotone recipes

[RFC] delete old monotone recipes

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

Dear all,

As it stands we have 6 monotone recipes:

monotone-5_0.25.2.bb
monotone-6_0.27.bb
monotone-6_0.31.bb
monotone-6_0.33.bb
monotone-6_0.34.bb
monotone-6_0.37.bb

There are all target-only recipes

I can imagine it made sense to have a monotone recipe for the target
when our sources were still in monotone, but I feel that nowadays it
is less useful
(apart from the question whether it is useful to have an SCM on an
embedded system).

Therefore I would like to bring up the following discussion topics:

Is there any use to keep the old monotone-6 recipes? (all but 0.37).
Or should we remove?

And what about the monotone-5 recipe. Is that still useful?

And what about the latest monotone-6 recipe? Is that still useful to keep?

Your opinion is appreciated.

Frans

Re: [RFC] delete old monotone recipes

[Tom Rini]

Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> As it stands we have 6 monotone recipes:
> 
> monotone-5_0.25.2.bb
> monotone-6_0.27.bb
> monotone-6_0.31.bb
> monotone-6_0.33.bb
> monotone-6_0.34.bb
> monotone-6_0.37.bb
> 
> There are all target-only recipes
> 
> I can imagine it made sense to have a monotone recipe for the target
> when our sources were still in monotone, but I feel that nowadays it
> is less useful
> (apart from the question whether it is useful to have an SCM on an
> embedded system).
> 
> Therefore I would like to bring up the following discussion topics:
> 
> Is there any use to keep the old monotone-6 recipes? (all but 0.37).
> Or should we remove?
> 
> And what about the monotone-5 recipe. Is that still useful?
> 
> And what about the latest monotone-6 recipe? Is that still useful to keep?
> 
> Your opinion is appreciated.

As an aside, I can't find anything called monotone-5 or monotone-6, just 
monotone.  But I'd otherwise suggest the normal rules apply, delete the 
unpinned versions assuming they're all GPLv2.

-- 
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation

Re: [RFC] delete old monotone recipes

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/9/30 Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>:
> Frans Meulenbroeks wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As it stands we have 6 monotone recipes:
>>
>> monotone-5_0.25.2.bb
>> monotone-6_0.27.bb
>> monotone-6_0.31.bb
>> monotone-6_0.33.bb
>> monotone-6_0.34.bb
>> monotone-6_0.37.bb
>>
>> There are all target-only recipes
>>
>> I can imagine it made sense to have a monotone recipe for the target
>> when our sources were still in monotone, but I feel that nowadays it
>> is less useful
>> (apart from the question whether it is useful to have an SCM on an
>> embedded system).
>>
>> Therefore I would like to bring up the following discussion topics:
>>
>> Is there any use to keep the old monotone-6 recipes? (all but 0.37).
>> Or should we remove?
>>
>> And what about the monotone-5 recipe. Is that still useful?
>>
>> And what about the latest monotone-6 recipe? Is that still useful to keep?
>>
>> Your opinion is appreciated.
>
> As an aside, I can't find anything called monotone-5 or monotone-6, just
> monotone.  But I'd otherwise suggest the normal rules apply, delete the
> unpinned versions assuming they're all GPLv2.
>
> --
> Tom Rini
> Mentor Graphics Corporation

The dir is called monotone, both monotone-5 and monotone-6 are recipes
within the monotone dir.
(note the - between monotone and [56])

Frans

Re: [RFC] delete old monotone recipes

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2010/9/30 Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>:

>
> As an aside, I can't find anything called monotone-5 or monotone-6, just
> monotone.  But I'd otherwise suggest the normal rules apply, delete the
> unpinned versions assuming they're all GPLv2.
>

removed all older monotione-6 versions
BTW the license for all was MIT.
I assume you wanted to say that if the latest was GPLv3 and an earlier
one was still GPLv2 we should keep the v2 one too.

off-topic: I know there are some places where this is the case (like
samba), for those I would prefer if the last v2 recipe was named
differently from the v3 ones.

on-topic again:
do we still want to keep the monotone-5 recipe? (personally I'd say no).
And what about the latest monotone-6 recipe (although I do not really
expect it to be used, I'm leaning towards keeping it, just in case
people feel a sudden urge to restore an old OE montone db on their
target)
BTW: monotone itsels is already at 0.48

Frans