From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50513C25B75 for ; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 21:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lelv0143.ext.ti.com (lelv0143.ext.ti.com [198.47.23.248]) by mx.groups.io with SMTP id smtpd.web11.6513.1717451711150722706 for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:55:11 -0700 Authentication-Results: mx.groups.io; dkim=pass header.i=@ti.com header.s=ti-com-17Q1 header.b=IWvGvdq7; spf=pass (domain: ti.com, ip: 198.47.23.248, mailfrom: rs@ti.com) Received: from lelv0266.itg.ti.com ([10.180.67.225]) by lelv0143.ext.ti.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 453LsuBf026963; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=ti.com; s=ti-com-17Q1; t=1717451696; bh=jQnIavSDurfLrRu+oe1bbTkrKCFtMLvxuIJtlaxtVv0=; h=Date:From:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=IWvGvdq73QVwRjRPlPiIV4FJJkW6OzTDUC8NGnTjovwOU8X97J/hL9e9zDoz01LvY 7ScRWBsG8Hv0xcI5A6/6XzU719bQ01dVQ6BS4SRCh+keJqLBqVdaOlwqz5gMjwj+9+ 12lnC3iL8rwL/aZxfXXUS9iGvyTcM9SUGlclqf/k= Received: from DFLE100.ent.ti.com (dfle100.ent.ti.com [10.64.6.21]) by lelv0266.itg.ti.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 453LsuuO091817 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:56 -0500 Received: from DFLE105.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.26) by DFLE100.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256) id 15.1.2507.23; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:55 -0500 Received: from lelvsmtp5.itg.ti.com (10.180.75.250) by DFLE105.ent.ti.com (10.64.6.26) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256_P256) id 15.1.2507.23 via Frontend Transport; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:56 -0500 Received: from localhost (rs-desk.dhcp.ti.com [128.247.81.144]) by lelvsmtp5.itg.ti.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 453LstOE021950; Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2024 16:54:55 -0500 Message-ID: From: Randolph Sapp To: Richard Purdie , Marko Lindqvist CC: , , Ryan Eatmon , Denys Dmytriyenko , , "alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com" Subject: Re: [oe-core] [RFC] meson.bbclass: pkg-config vs pkgconf X-Mailer: aerc 0.17.0 References: <648acd46523f9be85df778aa235d082312ead1ff.camel@linuxfoundation.org> <43bdffe76547583062c308a8dc2474eb4365d474.camel@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <43bdffe76547583062c308a8dc2474eb4365d474.camel@linuxfoundation.org> X-EXCLAIMER-MD-CONFIG: e1e8a2fd-e40a-4ac6-ac9b-f7e9cc9ee180 List-Id: X-Webhook-Received: from li982-79.members.linode.com [45.33.32.79] by aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org with HTTPS for ; Mon, 03 Jun 2024 21:55:16 -0000 X-Groupsio-URL: https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/200285 On Mon Jun 3, 2024 at 4:37 PM CDT, Richard Purdie wrote: > On Tue, 2024-06-04 at 00:32 +0300, Marko Lindqvist wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 at 00:22, Richard Purdie via > > lists.openembedded.org > > wrote: > > >=20 > > > Keeping it simple and saying "pkg-config behaviour" > > > everywhere is simpler IMO. > >=20 > > =C2=A0Do you think that pkg-config will still gain livelihood? I've > > considered it a dead project for some time now. I was about to check > > how many years it's since the latest commit to their repository, but > > the repo URL from freedesktop site now gave 404. > > It hasn't really needed to change to be honest. I do agree the 404 is > worrying and it has been a long time since there was a release. > > The trouble is, who wants to take on chasing down all the bugs and > pushing changes to all the upstreams that will need patching? In > general people fix a small corner of the problem then get > bored/frustrated/distracted/whatever and move on to something else, not > that I blame them. This isn't a conversion we can half do, it will end > up as another flag day :/. > > Cheers, > > Richard Don't worry about the 404. The freedesktop gitlab in in the middle of a migration. The project is still alive :) - Randolph