2009/11/12 Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[email protected]>: > Hi guys, > > here's the summary of the 'splitting the tree' session: > > Nobody seems to disagree with splitting the metadata tree into more > managable chunks. The expected goals are: > > 1. Making it easier to find things, > 2. Being able to mask whole groups out for improved parsing > 3. Identifying core code which needs to always work, hence improving the > observed quality of OE. > > Several criteria for splitting were discussed and there was a consensus > for splitting by functional complex. A tentative list of directories to > be used is: > > base (10% underlying recipes) > toolchain > x11 > framebuffer > gtk (includes gnome apps) > qte (includes opie and kde) > efl > > The attendendees were well aware of all the inherent problems with > taxonomy and its different meaning to anybody in the first place as well > as that some recipes will always be difficult to categorize since they > are very flexible to configure. This did not prevent the consensus that > splitting up will be necessary to improve quality. > > It was noted that oestats should be enhanced to be able to report a > subset of stats to start developing a test matrix of things which should > always work. > > More discussion shall be carried on on this list and after the TSC has > been elected, it will make a final decision. > > Cheers, >
I think a split is a good idea, but I am not too keen on the name "base" This suggests that it is kinda basic/core functionality. For a lot of recipes this is not true. E.g. I am currently working on xmltv, not really base functionality As the split proposal is more along the graphics axe, I suggest that instead of "base" we use something like "cmdline" or so (trying to avoid the word "terminal" here). Btw before someone proposes this: I'm also not too keen on a directory "other" as it will become a junkyard of things. Frans _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
