Re: [oe] any value in keeping the backward compat "task-core" stuff?

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>]

On Mon, 14 Jul 2014, Paul Eggleton wrote:

> On Monday 14 July 2014 07:39:23 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> 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.
>
> To be clear (since we're cross-posted to two lists in this thread)
> OE-Core patches go to the openembedded-core list, meta-oe patches to
> the openembedded- devel list.

  ah, gotcha, will fix.

rday

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