Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add support for XFCE 4.6.1.

Re: [RFC/PATCH] Add support for XFCE 4.6.1.

[Koen Kooi]

On 25-10-09 13:02, John Willis wrote:

> For now it adds an xfce46.bbclass to support the builds and lives alongside
> of XFCE 4.4 but in fairness I would like to propose dropping XFCE 4.4.* from
> dev (and leaving it in stable/2009 for now).

What would be the big advantage of deleting them? I'm generally not a 
fan of deleting recipes "because we can". OE has lots of users that 
don't read this mailinglist (which they should...) and generally start 
bitching (but not to oe mailinglists, as they should) when we drop 
stuff. That's of course largely their own fault for trying to live in 
their own insulated bubble, but it would be nice if OE can make their 
lives easier.

You're point that stable/2009 would still have them is a valid point :)

regards,

Koen

[RFC/PATCH] Add support for XFCE 4.6.1.

[John Willis]

I have added support to XFCE 4.6.1 to OpenEmbedded in a branch I am hosting
at 

http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=openembedded.git;a=shortlog;
h=xfce46-support

This is based on the earlier patchset I sent to the list and some feedback
Koen and Corsac (Debian's XFCE maintainer) provided. 
I have tested images made from the 2 new tasks on some of my OMAP3 boards
and all seems well.

For now it adds an xfce46.bbclass to support the builds and lives alongside
of XFCE 4.4 but in fairness I would like to propose dropping XFCE 4.4.* from
dev (and leaving it in stable/2009 for now).

I have also taken the liberty of renaming xfce to xfce-base and adding an
xfce-extras folder to house the non-core apps (gigolo, squeeze,
xfce4-notifyd, that sort of thing). I would also like to clean up the XFCE
recipes scattered around the tree but that has a bearing on if XFCE 4.4
remains supported in-tree.

Any comments?

Regards,

John

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