Re: question on meta-ti for yocto

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

On 03/21/2012 03:27 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> 
> The biggest confusion factor out there at the moment is meta-ti, not
> poky and I'd like to ask politely for people to get their act together.

Richard,

meta-ti is the focus of the confusion at the moment because it is trying
to support several different use cases.

The confusion about poky, yocto, oe is widespread. At an SDR related
conference earlier this month, I was asked by some of the grad student
types what all these words mean. And I gave about the same answer as
Koen, but worded a little more diplomatically,

Even people that should know better are making statements that add to
the confusion. I am 99% certain Saul used the phrase "Poky build system"
at the Yocto developer day. We laughed about it afterwards, but this
shows how deep the confusion is.

I know you are trying to help solve the confusion problem. But I feel
Koen should not take all the heat for expressing his frustration. We, as
in the Yocto Advisory Board should do a better job communicating how all
the pieces fit together,

Philip