From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com (astoria.ccjclearline.com [64.235.106.9]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B2F7044B; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [69.196.158.250] (port=43674 helo=crashcourse.ca) by astoria.ccjclearline.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X6ebY-0004rv-SZ; Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:39:36 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 07:39:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost To: Paul Eggleton In-Reply-To: <3833732.EFEfTvAqk5@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: References: <3833732.EFEfTvAqk5@peggleto-mobl5.ger.corp.intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (LFD 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.openembedded.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: OpenEmbedded Devel List , Otavio Salvador , openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: [oe] any value in keeping the backward compat "task-core" stuff? 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: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 11:39:40 -0000 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote: > On Friday 11 July 2014 20:39:04 Otavio Salvador wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Robert P. J. Day > > > > wrote: > > > a number of the current packagegroup recipe files still have > > > > > > backward compatibility support for the old "task-core" names, seems > > > like that's been there for well over a year, would it be safe to > > > finally just toss that? seems like everyone's had enough time to make > > > the move to the new names, and it would be clearer to not confuse the > > > proper use of the word "task" these days. > > > > I agree; however this question should also be send to oe-core mailing > > list (added in Cc) > > I agree as well; these should go. I know there are some who want to > keep these indefinitely for upgrade purposes, but I think there's a > limit to how long they should stay around in OE-Core. They can > always be preserved in bbappends for those that do want to keep > them. one more (general) question about this ... there's a fair bit of this task/packagegroup backward compatibility stuff under the meta-oe layer as well. i assume that patches to the meta-oe layer should still be posted to this list, but have a subject line of: [meta-oe][PATCH] ... correct? as in, two separate patches. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================