Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Fix flutter build failure

From: Marcus Hoffmann via buildroot <buildroot@buildroot.org>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>,
	Andreas Naumann <anaumann@ultratronik.de>
Cc: Adam Duskett <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>,
	buildroot@buildroot.org
Subject: Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH 0/2] Fix flutter build failure
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:20:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <eca996e7-dda2-4dfb-9cc2-0f2ea90daafa@bubu1.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZdPG1PGaE3RfoWHk@landeda>

Hi Andreas, Yann, all

On 19.02.24 22:23, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> Andreas, All,
> 
> On 2024-02-19 10:51 +0100, Andreas Naumann spake thusly:
>> Hello Adam, all,
>> I was motivated to give flutter a spin after your talk at FOSDEM,
>> however the recent bump to Python 3.12.1 broke some script during
>> the flutter-engine configure step.
>> Fortunately now a new major stable version has been released 3.19.0,
>> which contains a patch for this.
>>
>> After bumping engine and sdk they successfully build again, as does
>> creating the flutter bundles which you provided in
>> https://github.com/aduskett/buildroot-fosdem2024-flutter-demos
>>
>> I have not yet been able to run them using ivi-homescreen, but that's
>> probably due to my target display/wayland setup.
>>
>> However, the flutter-gallery no longer builds with 3.19, even after
>> bumping to the main HEAD. Their github README says
>> "NOTE: The Flutter Gallery is now deprecated, and no longer being active
>> maintained."
>> I thought about including a patch for removal of the gallery package,
>> but that would leave us with no example for how to create a flutter
>> bundle.
> 
> The upstream repository has also been "archived", which means it is
> frozen and will never get fixed, ever.
> 
> That's a bit unfortunate indeed, but we don't have much choice going
> forward: we'll have to drop that package in the near future, but not
> now: we're still considering reverting the python 3.12 version bump for
> 2024.02, as it still causes issues in the target==build case, which
> means we'd be able to keep the current flutter stack for 2024.02 LTS.
> 
> Then, we can reintroduce python3, the flutter-engine bumps in this
> series, and drop flutter-gfallery, hopefully introducing another package
> as an example on how to build flutter packages...

The archived repo page links to 
https://github.com/gskinnerTeam/flutter-wonderous-app and 
https://github.com/flutter/samples/tree/main/material_3_demo as 
replacement showcases.

I wonder how long these will last... :-/.

Marcus
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