create-layers-setup Yaml support #bitbake

[talhacali@gmail.com]

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Hi All,

In my project at work, we want to use create-layers-setup instead of git submodules. But, there is one issue that we are facing right now: We have got a CI pipeline that has Renovate bots to update, and create pull requests for repositories when a new commit is made in one of the dependencies. For it to work with Yocto layers, renovate bots require a regular expression in the Json file before ref key that create-layers-setup creates. But the problem is since Json doesn't support comments, and it is not sorted, it creates so much manual work. It is also so ugly if we add a dummy key to the json.

For that reason, would it be possible to support Yaml as an option? I know that Yaml is not part of Python standard library but it can be optional if pyyaml is installed in the system like here ( https://github.com/yoctoproject/poky/blob/e13a057812ec639544c321db0aedf9c7c203953e/documentation/sphinx/yocto-vars.py ). Either creating both json, and yaml file; or creating one of them that user chooses.

Regards,
Talha

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