[OE-core] qt4 moves out of oe-core - to meta-qt4, or to meta-oe?

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 12 November 2015 18:03:27 Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:45 PM,  <alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > now that 2.0 is out, it's time to move the Qt4 recipes out of oe-core.
> > This has been discussed previously here:
> > http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2015-June/106355
> > .html
> > 
> > I'm not sure where the recipes should land, and want to ask your opinion.
> > The options are:
> > 1) Make a new layer, meta-qt4, under meta-openembedded tree. Move also
> > everything in meta-oe/recipes-qt (and possibly other spots) to that layer.
> > This is somewhat more disruptive to people's layer configurations, but
> > would clearly separate qt4, and slim down meta-oe.
> > 
> > 2) Simply move the qt4 recipes from oe-core to meta-oe/recipes-qt, so they
> > will be next to all the qt4-based software. This is less disruptive, but
> > adds bloat to meta-oe.
> > 
> > Preferences?
> 
> 1) or even better in a separate repo

To be honest, I had anticipated this being a separate meta-qt4 repo myself. It 
would be consistent with what has been done with Qt 5 and much earlier with 
Qt 3.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre