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On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 02:33:14PM +0100, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 12:42:12PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>...
> > Not having the release there also loses the ability to use either
> > gcc_%.bbappend or gcc_8.3.0.bbappend, which are suitable for
> > different situations.
> 
> There is usually just one version per recipe and even with _git.bb
> suffix you can easily do gcc_7+git.bb and gcc_8+git.bb if you need to.

Thud contains 8.2 today, but might have 8.3 tomorrow.

A layer might want to append only to one of them,
or have different appends for different versions.

That's trivial with gcc_8.2.bb and gcc_8.3.bb,
and harder with gcc_8+svn.bb.

cu
Adrian

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