Re: [oe] [meta-oe][PATCH] parallel: Add recipe for GUN Parallel

[Rasmus Villemoes <ravi@prevas.dk>]

On Tue, Nov 05 2024, "peng.zhang1.cn via lists.openembedded.org" <peng.zhang1.cn=windriver.com@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:

> From: Zhang Peng <peng.zhang1.cn@windriver.com>
>
> This recipe adds the parallel package, a shell tool for executing jobs
> in parallel using one or more computers.

I often use GNU parallel, and might find some use for it on an embedded
target, so makes sense to me. However

> Signed-off-by: Zhang Peng <peng.zhang1.cn@windriver.com>
> ---
>  .../parallel/parallel_20150322.bb             | 22 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644
> meta-oe/recipes-extended/parallel/parallel_20150322.bb

Why such an old version? It's not a dead project, there was a release
just a few weeks ago. If it's because of some dependencies that the
newer releases have grown and which are hard/impossible to satisfy in
oe, that should be mentioned in the commit message.

Rasmus