Re: [PATCH 1/1] fetch2: remove "." in the end

[Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>]

On 06/24/2016 08:15 AM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-06-24 at 00:55 -0700, Robert Yang wrote:
>> From: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
>>
>> The filename can't be "foo." for MS Windows filesystem, it will
>> renamed
>> to "foo" automatically, so we can't upload sources like "foo." to the
>> Windows server, remove "." in the end will fix the problem.
> This patch on its own is probably ok. What I worry about is that if I
> merge this, I'll then get all the follow ups which for example force
> lower or upper case everywhere, remove ":" characters from all
> filenames (including sstate?), remove various other characters and so
> on.
>
> We don't run on windows filesystems and we're not likely ever to be
> able to.
>
> So what are we aiming for here?


It is compatibility with browsing and copying the bitbake/oe directory structures + the download cache.  We certainly don't expect to be building directly on Windows with a native bitbake. Today however, you can directly use git on Windows and building with the cross API's from a generated SDK.

Cheers,
Jason.