[OE-core] [PATCH] devtool: execute associated functions while preparing the source tree

[Paul Eggleton]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 09:33:22 Jiajie Hu wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 07:01:30 AM Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > So this in itself looks reasonable in theory, but I have to warn you that
> > when we switch to tinfoil2 [1] these commits are going to be done via the
> > metadata instead, and beyond a possible hack that I'd really rather not
> > think about it's going to be a bit difficult to intercept the
> > prefuncs/postfuncs there. At least they will be executed though since with
> > tinfoil2 we'll be going through a much more standard path to run the
> > tasks.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Tinfoil2
> 
> Glad to know that my fix can be superseded by tinfoil2 APIs. Do you have any
> estimation when the switch will happen?

The target is 2.3 milestone 1, which is in December. However there are still a 
lot of things to be fixed as I've noted on the wiki page I linked.

Thinking about it though it's possible I could split out this particular 
change and get it sent earlier - in fact that may be a good idea anyway. I'll 
look into that.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre