From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 23:04:21 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/2] jq: enable host package In-Reply-To: <20151021223958.5605a589@free-electrons.com> References: <1445251329-18120-1-git-send-email-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> <1445251329-18120-2-git-send-email-patrickdepinguin@gmail.com> <20151021223958.5605a589@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <5627FDD5.8060207@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 21-10-15 22:39, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Thomas, > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:42:09 +0200, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: >> From: Thomas De Schampheleire >> >> Allow building jq as host utility for use in post-build scripts. >> This can be useful to created, edit, merge or even perform syntax checking >> on JSON files. >> >> Signed-off-by: Thomas De Schampheleire > > Since this host package clearly doesn't fall into the "debugging tool, > flashing tool or image preparation tool" category, I'd like to collect > the opinion of a few other developers before applying. > > Peter, Arnout, Yann, what do you think? I was thinking the same thing when I say the patch, but I don't care enough to really comment on it. It's a bit similar to packages that depend on some host preprocessing tool, like flex. But then of course we just have a dependency and not a Config.in.host. OTOH, if we accept this, it kind of opens the doors to support almost everything as a host package. But maybe there's nothing wrong with that either. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286500 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7493 020B C7E3 8618 8DEC 222C 82EB F404 F9AC 0DDF