On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 13:41 +0300, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On 07/31/2017 01:41 PM, rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: > > > > > > given that some significant changes have been made to i2c-tools > > since > > version 3.1.2, is it worth adding a git-versioned recipe of that > > to > > oe-core, > > and using DEFAULT_PREFERENCE to force people to select it if they > > want it? > > in particular, the code base has been restructured, and a new > > utility, > > "i2ctransfer", has been added. > It's better to ask the upstream to make a new release. > > We've had dual git/release recipes in the past, and they were all an > utter failure. In the sense, that only one version of the recipe was > maintained, and the other was completely neglected.
Going forward we may accept patches using this instead: http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/tree/meta/classes/devupstream.bbclass Cheers, Richard -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core