Re: [oe] any value in keeping the backward compat "task-core" stuff?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Friday 11 July 2014 20:39:04 Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day
> >
> > <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> > >   a number of the current packagegroup recipe files still have
> > >
> > > backward compatibility support for the old "task-core" names, seems
> > > like that's been there for well over a year, would it be safe to
> > > finally just toss that? seems like everyone's had enough time to make
> > > the move to the new names, and it would be clearer to not confuse the
> > > proper use of the word "task" these days.
> >
> > I agree; however this question should also be send to oe-core mailing
> > list (added in Cc)
>
> I agree as well; these should go. I know there are some who want to
> keep these indefinitely for upgrade purposes, but I think there's a
> limit to how long they should stay around in OE-Core. They can
> always be preserved in bbappends for those that do want to keep
> them.

  one more (general) question about this ... there's a fair bit of
this task/packagegroup backward compatibility stuff under the meta-oe
layer as well. i assume that patches to the meta-oe layer should still
be posted to this list, but have a subject line of:

  [meta-oe][PATCH] ...

correct? as in, two separate patches.

rday

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