Hi Laszlo, On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 10:49:16AM +0200, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 04/02/19 07:38, Bi, Dandan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > ShellBinPkg is the remaining binary package in Edk2 repo. We plan > > to delete ShellBinPkg from edk2/master, and keep source ShellPkg > > only in edk2 repo. > > Before the deletion, I will update the existing consumers in Edk2 > > and Edk2Platforms to use ShellPkg directly. > > > > If you have any concern please raise here before mid-April . If > > there is no concern, I will create patches for this task after > > mid-April. > > > > Bugzilla for this task: > > https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1675 > > (adding a few CC's) > > I think we should not remove ShellBinPkg without a replacement *somehwere*. > > A shell binary that is built from a validated edk2 tree, with a set of > library resolutions and PCD settings that are known to keep platform > dependencies *out* of the shell binary, is extremely useful.
Agreed. However, I am not sure that accurately describes what we have today. > IIRC, Andrew suggested earlier that we should treat the shell even as an > "OS", with better compatibility standards than we currently maintain. > > I think we should only remove ShellBinPkg if we permanently offer a > separate download location instead, and we rebuild the shell binary from > "ShellPkg/ShellPkg.dsc" at every stable tag. I think this sounds like an exellent improvement. When I saw the patch, I did immediately think maybe I should start including them in my Linaro releases. But if we could automate a build of binaries for all supported architectures, and have a place to publish them, that would be much better. Best Regards, Leif > In that case, removing ShellBinPkg would indeed improve the edk2 tree, > in my opinion. > > Thanks, > Laszlo _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
