Re: [OE-core] RFC: Improving the developer workflow

2014-08-24 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi Nicolas, Apologies for the delayed reply. On Friday 08 August 2014 10:04:19 Nicolas Dechesne wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Paul Eggleton > wrote: > > Example workflow > > > > > > I won't give a workflow for every possible usage, but just to give a basic > > examp

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Improving the developer workflow

2014-08-08 Thread Mike Looijmans
On 08/07/2014 11:10 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: ... * Provide tools to allow modifying software for which a recipe already exists. If the user has an external source tree we use that, otherwise we can fetch the source, apply any patches and place the result in an external source tree, possibly mana

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Improving the developer workflow

2014-08-08 Thread Nicolas Dechesne
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Paul Eggleton wrote: > Example workflow > > > I won't give a workflow for every possible usage, but just to give a basic > example - let's assume you want to build a "new" piece of software for which > you have your own source tree on your machine.

[OE-core] RFC: Improving the developer workflow

2014-08-07 Thread Paul Eggleton
Hi folks, As most of you know within the Yocto Project and OpenEmbedded we've been trying to figure out how to improve the OE developer workflow. This potentially covers a lot of different areas, but one in particular I where think we can have some impact is helping application developers - peo