From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: rpjday@crashcourse.ca, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: worth adding a "git"-versioned of i2c-tools to oe-core?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:41:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca8a860d-0894-e604-6108-359ccd094e72@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170731064114.Horde.DvVIF0q0YvJ5HlL1pcjzGe4@crashcourse.ca>
On 07/31/2017 01:41 PM, rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
>
> given that some significant changes have been made to i2c-tools since
> version 3.1.2, is it worth adding a git-versioned recipe of that to
> oe-core,
> and using DEFAULT_PREFERENCE to force people to select it if they want it?
> in particular, the code base has been restructured, and a new utility,
> "i2ctransfer", has been added.
It's better to ask the upstream to make a new release.
We've had dual git/release recipes in the past, and they were all an
utter failure. In the sense, that only one version of the recipe was
maintained, and the other was completely neglected.
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-31 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-31 10:41 worth adding a "git"-versioned of i2c-tools to oe-core? rpjday
2017-07-31 10:41 ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]
2017-07-31 11:00 ` Richard Purdie
2017-07-31 11:15 ` rpjday
2017-07-31 12:50 ` Maxin B. John
2017-07-31 14:10 ` Maxin B. John
2017-07-31 19:17 ` Andre McCurdy
2017-07-31 18:57 ` Khem Raj
2017-08-01 13:35 ` Alexander Kanavin
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