[poky] poky and OpenEmbedded (post-release)

[Denys Dmytriyenko]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 09:42:29PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:31:16PM -0400, Denys Dmytriyenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 03:07:00PM -0400, Trevor Woerner wrote:
> > > Many thanks to Denys for pointing me to
> > > http://openembedded.org/wiki/OpenEmbedded-Core. You won't believe how
> > > I've poured over that page and how many "lights have gone on" while
> > > reading it (over and over).
> > > 
> > > If poky started as a fork of OE but is now a distribution, wouldn't it
> > > make sense to remove the "meta" directory from poky and simply have
> > > people add openembedded-core as a layer (as they would any other
> > > layer)?
> > 
> > I believe that was suggested few times before (and other distros are doing 
> > exactly that - i.e. assembling their distros from layers), but Poky developers 
> > prefer their distro to be already pre-assembled for ease of use. Besides 
> > openembedded-core layer, there're also bitbake and meta-yocto inside Poky. It 
> > maybe confusing at first, but think of it as being pre-assembled from bitbake+
> > oe-core + meta-yocto and saved into a single repository.
> > 
> > Well, at least it saves Poky from needing to provide setup tools to download 
> > and assemble different layers from different repositories. Otherwise you would 
> > need something like our oe-layersetup[1] tool for Arago or setup-scripts for 
> > Angstrom etc.
> 
> But on the other hand they wouldn't need to send slightly different
> (path prefix) patchsets for poky and for oe-core/bitbake/meta-yocto.

Yes, indeed! So, a slightly easier user experience for the price of a slight 
maintenance overhead. :)

-- 
Denys


> > [1] git://arago-project.org/git/projects/oe-layersetup.git
> > 
> > -- 
> > Denys
> > 
> > > Or am I going down the wrong path with this thought?
> > > 
> > > Of course it might be confusing having, potentially, both an
> > > openembedded-core and a meta-openembedded layer, but it seems like
> > > having the "meta" directory in poky is redundant, given that it is
> > > already its own layer in openembedded-core.
> > > 
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