From: Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>
To: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>,
yocto@yoctoproject.org,
openembedded-architecture@lists.openembedded.org
Cc: Brian Avery <brian.avery@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Openembedded-architecture] Removing Hob for 2.1
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 08:37:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D05536.3090904@balister.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2956615.y8hyrZheM7@peggleto-mobl.ger.corp.intel.com>
On 02/25/2016 09:49 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> So we've been gearing up the Toaster web UI to replace the Hob (GTK+ based) UI
> for some time now; Hob has basically been on life support for the past few
> releases. As of late last month in master, Toaster has the capability to
Please remove Hob.
I've heard that the Linux Foundation training still mentions Hob, I'll
double check that this content is removed and shifted to Toaster.
Philip
> select the packages in an image, removing the last thing that Hob could do
> that Toaster couldn't. This means it's about time we looked at removing Hob -
> particularly if we want to do so for the upcoming 2.1 release as we should
> really do so within the M3 development timeframe which is almost over.
>
> To recap, the reasons why Hob ought to be removed include:
>
> - The code is tightly woven into BitBake, making it fragile. This means it
> needs significant QA and maintenance on an ongoing basis.
>
> - Some of the implementation is not ideal; we'll be able to remove some cruft
> from BitBake and OE-Core at the same time.
>
> - It's GTK+ 2 based, not the current GTK+ 3.
>
> - Toaster is now a much more capable UI and is being actively maintained
>
> I'm maintaining a list of things we would drop together with Hob, so I could
> probably come up with a patchset - I just wanted to give people a heads up and
> double check that this is something we indeed want to do in 2.1. Any comments?
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-26 2:49 Removing Hob for 2.1 Paul Eggleton
2016-02-26 2:54 ` [Openembedded-architecture] " Khem Raj
2016-02-26 19:15 ` Anders Darander
2016-02-26 13:37 ` Philip Balister [this message]
2016-02-26 14:26 ` nick
2016-02-28 20:42 ` Paul Eggleton
2016-02-26 14:29 ` nick
2016-02-29 12:29 ` Barros Pena, Belen
2016-02-29 0:17 ` Standalone image writer Paul Eggleton
2016-02-29 1:46 ` [Openembedded-architecture] " Khem Raj
2016-02-29 3:31 ` Trevor Woerner
2016-02-29 3:48 ` Gary Thomas
2016-02-29 7:12 ` Paul Eggleton
2016-02-29 11:27 ` Barros Pena, Belen
2016-02-29 19:52 ` Paul Eggleton
2016-02-29 20:05 ` Giordon Stark
2016-03-02 21:16 ` Paul Eggleton
2016-03-02 23:18 ` Andrei Gherzan
2016-02-29 20:13 ` Philip Balister
2016-02-29 11:04 ` FW: Removing Hob for 2.1 Barros Pena, Belen
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