Re: Style issue for recipes

["Peter A. Bigot" <pab@pabigot.com>]

On 09/04/2014 10:03 AM, Robert Yang wrote:
>
> On 09/04/2014 10:12 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quick question of style for the community to bikeshed on:  in the
>> general case should recipes be split into foo_1.2.bb and foo.inc, or
>> should they only split to bb/inc if there are multiple versions and
>> generally there should just be foo_1.2.bb.
>
> I think that put the constants in .inc is helpful for upgrading, for
> example, the SUMMARY, DESCRIPTION, HOMEPAGE, SECTION, inherit and so on,
> they are unlikely to change when upgrade.

I believe most of those carry over when an upgrade is simply a matter of 
renaming the recipe from foo_1.2.bb to foo_3.4.bb and changing the 
checksums.  I don't think foo.inc is warranted when only one file will 
ever include it.

I agree libunwind is a perfect example of where they can be merged into 
one file to simplify things, as long as everybody remembers to use -M 
when generating the patch.

Peter