Re: OE-Classic recipe migration status

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 07:11:28PM +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Whilst the OE-Core-based layer landscape has grown quite a bit over the last 
> year and we now have a wealth of clean and up-to-date recipes, I've heard a 
> few people commenting that we've still lost quite a few recipes along the way. 
> Nobody who did make that comment has seemed to be able to be specific about 
> what they thought we were missing however, so I figured it would be worth 
> trying to determine exactly which recipes are only available in OE-Classic.
> 
> With the help of some scripts I've produced a list of the recipes, made some 
> notes and categorised some of them. I've published the list on the wiki 
> (unfortunately I had to split it into two pages since it was too large to put 
> into one):
> 
>  http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OE-Classic_Recipes_A-I
>  http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/OE-Classic_Recipes_J-Z
> 
> I don't know much about a lot of these recipes, so if you can help to fill in 
> the gaps particularly by marking the obsolete ones as such or adding other 
> comments, that would be great. Either edit the pages directly or make your 
> comments here and I'll merge them.

I've noticed quite a few recipes listed here, which does exist in some
layer (recipes mostly from meta-fso, meta-aurora, meta-shr), should I
remove them from that wiki page or add layer name in 2nd column?

Cheers,

> Using some more hacky scripts to break down the recipes into groups, I've 
> produced the following numbers (with the incomplete data as it stands):
> 
>    1484 other
>     218 BSP
>     211 BugLabs
>     195 libs
>     193 obsolete
>     155 obsolete directory (OE-Classic)
>     136 PERL
>     119 python
>      92 distro
>      89 tasks
>      84 nonworking directory (OE-Classic)
>      80 GPE
>      79 X11 drivers
>      59 images
>      59 games
>      41 fonts
>      23 security
>      20 in another layer
>      18 pending
>      11 EFL
> 
> So clearly there are quite a few recipes left that could be brought back, 
> assuming there is demand; on the other hand there are a significant number that 
> can probably just be discarded. For those that are still of interest, we need 
> motivated individuals to do the migration and maintain the recipes going 
> forward.
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
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> 
> Paul Eggleton
> Intel Open Source Technology Centre
> 
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