On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:21:09AM +0000, Iorga, Cristian wrote:
> Well:
> 1. That's a thing for the future
> 2. Who will maintain support for bugs reported to BlueZ 4.x? It's a matter of 
> resources.
> 3. "Projects using different Bluetooth implementations" is something 
> different from switching from BZ4 to BZ5 and vice versa. We don’t support 
> multiple Bluetooth stacks, but (incompatible!) variants of BlueZ. That's 
> different. In the future, we will no longer support both, why complicate the 
> code?

Because OE is supposed to be flexible build system?

"switching from BZ4 to BZ5 and vice versa" is something different from
"all mechanisms for having BlueZ alternatives will be removed"

> /Cristian Iorga
> Yocto Project
> Intel Corporation
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Jansa [mailto:martin.ja...@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2015 1:55 PM
> To: Iorga, Cristian
> Cc: Otavio Salvador; Peter A. Bigot; Patches and discussions about the 
> oe-core layer
> Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 5/5] bluetooth.bbclass: set bluez5 as the 
> default BT stack
> 
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 02:32:13PM +0000, Iorga, Cristian wrote:
> > for 2.0 (why 1.10??), if that will be the name, all mechanisms for 
> > having BlueZ alternatives will be removed, and BlueZ 5 will be the 
> > only official supported BT stack.
> 
> why would you remove mechanisms for having BlueZ alternatives?
> 
> Some projects are still using different bluetooth implementations and having 
> the possibility to disable/replace bluez* is still useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org 
> > [mailto:openembedded-core-boun...@lists.openembedded.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Otavio Salvador
> > Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 4:18 PM
> > To: Peter A. Bigot
> > Cc: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
> > Subject: Re: [OE-core] [PATCH 5/5] bluetooth.bbclass: set bluez5 as 
> > the default BT stack
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Peter A. Bigot <p...@pabigot.com> wrote:
> > > On 04/06/2015 02:31 AM, Iorga, Cristian wrote:
> > >
> > > I thought of 1.9 as the preparatory stage for complete removal of 
> > > bluez4, so that in 2.0 it would be very easy to remove the support for 
> > > bluez4.
> > > Continuing to have bluez5 added to DISTRO_FEATURES create the 
> > > impression that BlueZ5 is still a second class citizen compared to 
> > > BlueZ4, and it is not my intention to sustain this opinion via code.
> > >
> > > I hereby standup for my solution. At the moment, we are 1to1. “We 
> > > think” – Who are the others persons, Ross?
> > >
> > > /Cristian
> > >
> > >
> > > While I fully support moving to bluez5 and use it in all my images, 
> > > I do think it's a bit abrupt to make it the default in the first 
> > > stable release that provides a usable bluez5.  On the other hand, 
> > > Yocto's late to the
> > > bluez5 party and it's going to be harder to support bluez4 now.
> > >
> > > Six of one; sign me up as weak support for delaying the move to 
> > > default
> > > bluez5 until 1.10.
> > >
> > > Just an opinion.
> > 
> > I prefer bluez5 default in 1.9 and removal in 2.0 (or 1.10). We shouldn't 
> > be support legacy without a very strong reason and if any member shows up 
> > to officially support bluez4 for longer we may drop its removal but bluez5 
> > default should be done as soon as possible so we iron out regressions.
> > 
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