From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AC8C6AE6E; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r6QG8Ji6004219 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL); Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [128.224.20.81] (128.224.20.81) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.342.3; Fri, 26 Jul 2013 09:08:19 -0700 Message-ID: <51F29EEF.1020806@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 12:08:15 -0400 From: Randy MacLeod User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130623 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Eggleton References: <51F18346.2@windriver.com> <20130725202743.GB3280@jama> <2462161.40E7azp51u@helios> In-Reply-To: <2462161.40E7azp51u@helios> X-Originating-IP: [128.224.20.81] Cc: koen@dominion.thruhere.net, "openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org" , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Add lua to oe-core. X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:08:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 13-07-26 10:11 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Thursday 25 July 2013 22:27:43 Martin Jansa wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:57:58PM -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote: >>> I've found that many projects use the lua scripting language. >>> I'd like to move it from meta-oe to oe-core: >>> >>> http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recip >>> es-devtools/lua/lua5.1_5.1.5.bb?h=master >>> >>> http://www.lua.org/about.html >>> >>> lua-5.2.2 is current, see: http://www.lua.org/download.html >>> so we'd likely uprev and send that version. >>> >>> rpm and lighttpd could (would?) optionally depend on lua. >>> >>> oe-core.git $ grep -r lua * | egrep -v 'valuat|valuable|uargp|rpm' >>> >>> meta/recipes-extended/lighttpd/lighttpd_1.4.32.bb: >>> --without-lua \ >>> >>> Any comments pro or con before we do the uprev, testing and send >>> a commit? >> >> 2 recipes which would optionally depend on it doesn't make it good >> "core" component IMHO. >> >> But uprev, few PACKAGECONFIGs and more testing would be nice. > > I concur with Martin, if we're only talking about optional dependencies this > should just be a case of adding the PACKAGECONFIG options to the recipes in > OE-Core (or whereever they happen to be), with lua remaining in meta-oe. I understand your reluctance to add bloat to oe-core but from a users point of view a base distro should have a reasonable collection of tools. I'll add lua to our internal layer since we don't support all of meta-oe. We'll uprev and send meta-oe the new recipe. > However I am aware that lua may be a hard dependency for upcoming versions of > stuff we do have in OE-Core (I can't recall which). We'll have to cross that > bridge when we come to it. Ok. Thanks for the feedback. // Randy > > Cheers, > Paul > -- # Randy MacLeod. SMTS, Linux, Wind River Direct: 613.963.1350