On 05/11/2011 09:15 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > Between myself and others, there are several outstanding proposals to > modify the pull-request scripts. Patches have been sent, but nothing has > been merged due to a lack of consensus. I thought I would summarize what > I see to be the current weaknesses of the scripts and my proposal to > address them. I would like your feedback to ensure we have tools that > meet the needs of a broad user base. Once we agree, I'll be happy to > write up the patches or help review those written by others.
Thanks for taking this up! [snip] > 2) create-pull-request needs to facilitate the use of multiple > repositories (Tom Rini) So long as (a) it's supported and (b) it's easy to use, I'm fine with however you want to implement it :) Which brings me to... [snip] > 3) Rewrite the scripts in python (Tom) > > While I agree that anything of any significant complexity is better > written in python than bash, I feel that with the above changes, the > current scripts will be smaller and remain simple enough for bash to > be a viable option. > > I propose we leave the scripts in bash for the time being, leaving > the door open to rewrite them at a later date should their complexity > increase to merit the effort. To me, dealing with some sort of prefs file means non-bash. But if you can figure out everything that's needed with a little bit of asking git and a little bit of standard-shell-magic (which it sounds like you can), yeah, keeping it in bash is fine. -- Tom Rini Mentor Graphics Corporation _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
