From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 11:34:51 +1300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] python-lxml: allow build as host package In-Reply-To: <1485179476-6049-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> References: <1485179476-6049-1-git-send-email-casantos@datacom.ind.br> Message-ID: <20170124113451.2af0d791@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 11:51:16 -0200, Carlos Santos wrote: > While currently there is no in-tree Buildroot package which depends on > host-python-lxml, we (DATACOM) have some proprietary modules that use it > in their test scripts. > > We tested python-lxml as host package and confirmed that it builds and > works correctly. Someone else might require it, so we are proposing its > inclusion. > > Signed-off-by: Carlos Santos I remain a little bit uncomfortable with host packages that have no in-tree user, as it means the code is dead and never tested by our autobuilder infrastructure. That being said, lots of aspects of Buildroot are already not tested by our autobuilder infra, so maybe my argument is not so good after all. Peter, what is your feeling on this ? Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com