From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SEp71-0003ni-L1 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:48:31 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Apr 2012 14:39:22 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.71,315,1320652800"; d="scan'208";a="126281220" Received: from unknown (HELO helios.localnet) ([10.252.120.26]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Apr 2012 14:39:21 -0700 From: Paul Eggleton To: "Robert P. J. Day" Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:39:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1695746.vzEQQB1zRy@helios> Organization: Intel Corporation User-Agent: KMail/4.8.0 (Linux/3.0.0-17-generic-pae; KDE/4.8.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: should all class files be inherited by *something*? X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:48:31 -0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Monday 02 April 2012 17:34:26 Robert P. J. Day wrote: > poking around the meta/classes/*.bbclass files and one looked a bit > odd -- scons.bbclass. i was under the impression that class files > were supposed represent a *general* kind of functionality so i was > curious as to what this file represented. > > more to the point, it doesn't look like anything in oe-core inherits > that class. so what exactly is its purpose? I believe it's for supporting the scons build system. scons isn't hugely popular though so I guess it's not surprising that nothing in OE-Core uses it. > and following up on that, another example of that kind of file is > oelint.bbclass -- again, i don't see anything in oe-core that inherits > it. I think oelint.bbclass is a really out-of-date recipe lint checking tool. I wonder if anyone has used it lately. There could be value in bringing it up- to-date though. It's worth noting that we may have a number of classes that are supposed to be generally useful in OE-Core that aren't used within OE-Core itself. This is a good idea because it reduces the proliferation of different versions of such classes in multiple layers. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Eggleton Intel Open Source Technology Centre