RFC: classes cleanup

RFC: classes cleanup

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi all,

I was looking through classes/ the other day and I noticed a few that probably 
don't need to be in oe-core. The list I came up with:

* base_srpm.bbclass - unused, refers to missing rpm_core.bbclass
* ccdv.bbclass - unused, not sure what this is for?
* flow-lossage.bbclass - unused, looks obsolete (refers to gcc 3.4)
* mozilla.bbclass - should this be in an upper layer?
* openmoko*.bbclass - should be in an upper layer
* patcher.bbclass - obsolete?
* singlemachine.bbclass - obsolete?
* srec.bbclass - appears to be something LinuxMIPS related. Not sure it 
belongs in oe-core.
* tmake.bbclass - obsolete? even oe-dev doesn't use this AFAICT...
* xfce.bbclass - should this be in an upper layer?
* xlibs.bbclass - unused, obsolete?

Comments? Any others we ought to look at removing?

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre

Re: RFC: classes cleanup

[Phil Blundell]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:15 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> * flow-lossage.bbclass - unused, looks obsolete (refers to gcc 3.4)

Agreed, this should be deleted.  It used to be inherited by some of the
gnome recipes (and, in oe.dev, still is by a few) to work around a
compiler bug.  But none of the recipes in oe-core do this, and we don't
ship the affected compiler versions either.

There is one recipe in meta-oe which inherits this class so I guess that
should be fixed before it's deleted.

p.

Re: RFC: classes cleanup

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:22 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 12:15 +0100, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > * flow-lossage.bbclass - unused, looks obsolete (refers to gcc 3.4)
> 
> Agreed, this should be deleted.  It used to be inherited by some of the
> gnome recipes (and, in oe.dev, still is by a few) to work around a
> compiler bug.  But none of the recipes in oe-core do this, and we don't
> ship the affected compiler versions either.
> 
> There is one recipe in meta-oe which inherits this class so I guess that
> should be fixed before it's deleted.

Can someone do that please as I think we should get rid of that class :)

Looking through the list there is nothing I feel we really need to keep
at this point although some like patcher and singlemachine should still
work...

Cheers,

Richard

Re: RFC: classes cleanup

[Paul Eggleton]

On Thursday 14 July 2011 15:55:26 Richard Purdie wrote:
> Can someone do that please as I think we should get rid of that class :)

I have some pending cleanups for meta-oe including this one, will post them 
today.
 
Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre