Re: RFC: drop quilt version 0.39

[Paul Sokolovsky <pmiscml@gmail.com>]

Hello Robert,

Friday, December 21, 2007, 2:48:05 AM, you wrote:

> Hi.

> Paul Sokolovsky schrieb:
>> Hello Koen,
>> To elaborate, I hope that we'll revamp OE support for using external
>> toolchains for building single packages, because it seems that people
>> have got a stereotype that OE is for building entire system from
>> scratch (at that would be too limiting - why I'd use top-notch
>> solution to build a whole distro while revert to using adhoc tools to
>> build packages for 3rd-party systems?)
> I second this. At jalimo we heavily use OE to build packages for Maemo.
> I find this much more sane than endlessly fighting with scratchbox ...

>> For example, I just pushed openwrt-sdk distro config, which allows
>> to build packages against OpenWRT SDK. Due to OpenWRT dependencies, it
>> may be required to build older than the latest versions of some
>> packages.
> Would be fun to bring OpenWRT people to a point where they only manage a
> small set of core packages and create every other package using OE ...

  Yeah, conquering the world if always fun, but we should start with
small things, like making it *easy* to build packages for 3rd-party
systems, and fight OE stereotypes, the biggest of which:

1. OE is hard to install and setup
2. OE builds only complete images for installing "from scratch"
3. OE is only for PDAs and builds only big images.

> Regards
> Robert




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