From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ADCE7840D for ; Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:43:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 31 Jul 2017 03:43:35 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.40,442,1496127600"; d="scan'208";a="293674594" Received: from kanavin-desktop.fi.intel.com (HELO [10.237.68.161]) ([10.237.68.161]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 31 Jul 2017 03:43:35 -0700 To: rpjday@crashcourse.ca, openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org References: <20170731064114.Horde.DvVIF0q0YvJ5HlL1pcjzGe4@crashcourse.ca> From: Alexander Kanavin Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:41:25 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170731064114.Horde.DvVIF0q0YvJ5HlL1pcjzGe4@crashcourse.ca> Subject: Re: worth adding a "git"-versioned of i2c-tools 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: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 10:43:35 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/31/2017 01:41 PM, rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote: > > given that some significant changes have been made to i2c-tools since > version 3.1.2, is it worth adding a git-versioned recipe of that to > oe-core, > and using DEFAULT_PREFERENCE to force people to select it if they want it? > in particular, the code base has been restructured, and a new utility, > "i2ctransfer", has been added. It's better to ask the upstream to make a new release. We've had dual git/release recipes in the past, and they were all an utter failure. In the sense, that only one version of the recipe was maintained, and the other was completely neglected. Alex