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Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH] gstreamer: use git to fetch the sources
From: "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Jose Quaresma <quaresma.jose@gmail.com>, 
	openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:32:08 +0000
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On Fri, 2020-10-30 at 23:22 +0000, Jose Quaresma wrote:
> gstreamer has the code hosted on [1] and this repo as tags.
> manage code with git its more convenient than with tarball archives.
> 
> [1] - https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jose Quaresma <quaresma.jose@gmail.com>

I'm not 100% sure about this. Tarballs tend to be less overhead for
fetching and make for easier source archiving. The git repos are easier
for day to day dev work but tend to be harder for the AUH to handle and
slower to fetch for the users taking up more space to download and
unpack. I'm therefore torn. I know where we have used git for other
core components it has caused performance issues.

We do also have the option of the devupstream class although I know
that doesn't quite work for the native cases yet sadly.

Cheers,

Richard