Re: [bitbake-devel] Online tool for playing with variable expansion - first steps and where to host it

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2024-02-14 at 16:59 +0000, Chris Laplante via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> This bug (“A web based playground for experimenting with bitbake variable 
> expansion”) has been preying on my mind ever since I read it on 
> Bugzilla:https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14805.


This does sound quite neat and I'm happy to see people experimenting
like this.

[...]

> As far as next steps, I was thinking I would build a simple-ish web app using 
> https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor (the editor that powers VS Code). 
> This would let us implement a Rust Playground-type of experience.
>  
> The two main questions in my mind are where to keep the code and where to host it?
>  
> For the code, I lean towards a separate repository. I was just going to put it 
> under my company’s GitHub:https://github.com/Agilent. This is what I’ll do unless
> people feel strongly otherwise. (I’d rather not put it in BitBake itself since due 
> to CORS restrictions I’ll probably need to keep tar.gz copies of BitBake in the 
> repo so the client can fetch it (*3). I also don’t think we want all the webpack 
> and TypeScript clutter in BitBake)

I agree it doesn't belong in bitbake itself. I did wonder about
something like the yoctoproject github if you wanted more exposure
there but I don't have a strong preference either way. 

> For hosting, assuming it goes on our GitHub, I was just going to use GitHub pages.
>  The first iteration will be a client-side only application (*4)(*5), so no server 
> will be required except a static endpoint for serving BitBake source code as mentioned above.
>  
> Does anyone have strong objections to this plan?

No objection, I mainly wanted to reply to show someone read it and
thought it sounds fun :)

Cheers,

Richard