From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C719960CF1 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:28:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vwvob-0005Dn-5X for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:28:37 +0100 Received: from ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl ([77.162.165.174]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:28:37 +0100 Received: from koen by ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:28:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org From: Koen Kooi Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:28:35 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1801103.RjHpRo2rCi@helios> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip4da2a5ae.direct-adsl.nl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 In-Reply-To: <1801103.RjHpRo2rCi@helios> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: poky@yoctoproject.org, openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: Piglit in Poky 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: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:28:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Eggleton schreef op 28-12-13 12:48: > Hi Koen, > > On Tuesday 24 December 2013 15:22:32 Koen Kooi wrote: >> Burton, Ross schreef op 23-12-13 19:01: >>> We'd like to integrate Piglit (an OpenGL test suite) into Poky so >>> that we can run automated QA on the GL stack. Piglit is currently >>> residing in meta-oe, but as Poky is a self-contained project we can't >>> just add meta-oe to it: apart from the size of meta-oe, we can't >>> ensure stability if meta-oe makes incompatible changes that affect >>> Poky. >>> >>> Piglit isn't a stand-alone package, there are the dependencies of >>> waffle, python-mako and python-numpy to consider too. There are two >>> possibilities I can see: >>> >>> 1) Move piglit and deps to oe-core. Piglit is for QA purposes only >>> and pushes the boundaries of "core platform". In a sense this is a >>> repeat of the discussion we had with Midori... does oe-core contain >>> everything needed to sufficiently exercise the core components it >>> ships or not? >>> >>> 2) Add piglit and deps to meta-yocto. Probably a new layer called >>> meta-yocto-qa (or similar) because the Yocto Compatible guidelines >>> forbid mixing distribution policy and recipes. >> >> Speaking of layers, can you *please* rename meta-yocto to meta-poky? >> It's what it's actually is and would remove a lot of confusion when >> trying to explain that yocto is not a distro, even if the distro layer >> is called 'meta-yocto'. > > This is a tangent, but a couple of points: > > 1) This rename would not come for free. We'd need to update people's > existing bblayers.conf files on the fly, as we did when meta-yocto-bsp > was split out of meta-yocto, and thus bump LCONF_VERSION; however, doing > this only in poky has resulted in annoying problems when users remove > poky from their configurations (since LCONF_VERSION is out-of-step > between Poky and OE-Core, leading to confusing errors in this situation). > Thus I think we'd want to solve this once and for all by bumping the > value in OE-Core as well as Poky. > > 2) If you propose this rename, perhaps you will also consider renaming > meta-oe, since that name within a similarly named meta-openembedded > repository leads to a similar level of confusion...? I have no problems with renaming that layer since I get confused by this a few times a week myself :) regards, Koen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFSvu4jMkyGM64RGpERAqnnAJ9+ASZITy/zGdjAC9PypPkWVsKO/ACdFF00 0Mfkmf+s20DWkHs6NwxkZYM= =YCAe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----