[poky] [PATCH][RFC] bitbake: add task tracking

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 21:13 -0700, Chris Larson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Qing He <qing.he at intel.com> wrote:
>         Add a new option to record start and end time of every task
>         
>         Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he at intel.com>
> 
> 
> This is useful conceptually, and I'm glad to see others touching the
> bitbake code, so kudos on that, but implementation wise, I have
> concerns.  For one, this doesn't need to be in bitbake at all, it's
> quite easily implemented in the metadata using an event handler and
> the task events.  For two, hardcoding the log file and format seems
> unwise.

I agree, implementing this as an event handler would be a better
approach and allow more flexibility. 

Qing: I thought we'd already discussed that?

Cheers,

Richard